Re: using symlinks for manpages

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> In fact, I believe all symlinks should be relative, except top-level
> symlinks.  And packages probably shouldn't ship any of those:)

Not exactly. cf. Policy § 10.5:

,----
| In general, symbolic links within a top-level directory should be
| relative, and symbolic links pointing from one top-level directory into
| another should be absolute. (A top-level directory is a sub-directory of
| the root directory /.)
| 
| In addition, symbolic links should be specified as short as possible,
| i.e., link targets like foo/../bar are deprecated.
`----

dh_link does the right thing.

-- 
Florent