Re: /usr/share policy

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 07:23:08PM -0400, 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.)

That's not the issue under discussion; we're talking about putting
data in /usr/share/<package> or elsewhere in /usr/share, not about the
copyright file, etc.

   Julian

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