Re: Perl example scripts
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 12:12:31PM +1000, David Creelman wrote:
> I may be speaking out of turn here (just a lurker), but recently I saw
> on the RC bugs list a large number of RC bugs that were put against
> several packages that were relying on files that came from
> /usr/share/doc/<package> directories.
This is a common misunderstanding. It's fine to install
(architecture-independent) example scripts in
/usr/share/doc/<package>/examples - that's what that directory
convention is there for! What's not fine is for the package to rely on
automatically doing things in /usr/share/doc in order to work.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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