Re: Can /usr/share/doc/<pkg> be deleted on upgrade ?

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br>]

On Qui, 26 Nov 2009, "Lucas B. Cohen" wrote:
> Esteemed Debian mentors,
>
> Is it considered acceptable for a package to blindly delete, then
> recreate its entire directory under /usr/share/doc upon installation or
> upgrade ?
>
> Although I probably will do a conditional backup of such a hypothtical
> folder in {pre,post}inst anyhow ("polite" feels like better goal than
> "acceptable"), I mostly raise this because it doesn't seem covered in
> the FHS, Debian Policy or other maintainer-oriented material I've read.
> The most related items I could find were:
>
> - "Any program or package which contains or requires data that doesn?t
> need to be modified should store that data in /usr/share" (FHS 2.3)
>
> - "The system administrator should be able to delete files in
> /usr/share/doc/ without causing any programs to break" (Debian Policy
> 12.3, footnote 7)"
>
> In worse-case scenarios, these could be illogically interpreted as
> explicit permission for a package to rule unilateraly on its doc directory.

Why exactly do you want to do that? What do you want to achieve?

I'm not sure that's allowed, but even if it is, there's probably a  
better way to do what you want, if you explain us the reasons for  
doing that.


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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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