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[FIXED] Re: symlinks between two packages



Ainsi parla Nicolas Rueff le 315ème jour de l'an 2003:

> Ainsi parla Andreas Metzler le 315ème jour de l'an 2003:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:23:32PM +0100, Nicolas Rueff wrote:
> > > I'm attempting to become DD, so I'm currently packaging some
> > > software. One of this software must be packaged in two parts: one
> > > for the client part (tty/console), one for the X frontend, so the
> > > X frontend package depends on the client package.
> > 
> > > My problem is that the README and changelog files are the same for
> > > both, so instead of install 2 times the same files. I attempt to
> > > make symlinks from README and changelog from the X frontend
> > > package to those from the client package, which seems correct
> > > since the X frontend package depends on the client package, so
> > > they will never be dead links. But lintian tells me that the
> > > README and changelog files from the X frontend package are
> > > zero-sized, which is quite normal since the links are broken while
> > > they are not installed.
> > 
> > > So should I install the same version for the two packages, or rely
> > > on symlinks, ignoring lintians's errors ?
> > 
> > The easy way around that is to make the complete directory
> > /usr/share/doc/xfrontend a symlink to /usr/share/doc/client-part
> > (policy 12.3).
> 
> That seems to be what I'm looking for: 
> (from policy 12.3): /usr/share/doc/package may be a symbolic link to
> another directory in /usr/share/doc only if the two packages both come
> from the same source and the first package Depends on the second.

All right, this was what I was looking for. Thank you Andreas.


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