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Re: /usr/share policy



On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Joey Hess wrote:

> Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Agreed.  (And I don't think /usr/share/<package> is mandated.)

>      Every package MUST be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright
>      and distribution license in the file
>      `/usr/share/doc/_<package-name>_/copyright'

>      Packages that are not Debian-native MUST contain a copy of
>      `debian/changelog' file from the Debian source tree in
>      `/usr/share/doc/<package>' as `changelog.Debian.gz'.

> (Caps mine.)

/usr/share/doc/<package>, not /usr/share/<package>.  Two different beasts.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer



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