Bug#804317: libreoffice-dev-doc: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: /usr/share/doc/libreoffice-dev-doc/docs -> ../libreoffice-dev/docs
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Hi,
On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 07:27:32PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> > Lets consider the locations
> > ./usr/share/doc/libreoffice-dev-doc/docs
> > ./usr/share/doc/libreoffice-dev/docs
> > as "burned" and recovering them from possible nested symlinks will be
> > nearly impossible. So let's move the tree away from there, e.g. to
> > ./usr/share/doc/libreoffice-dev-doc/devdocs
> > (important: this directory must have never been used before)
> > Is the location /usr/share/doc/libreoffice-dev-doc/docs used anywhere?
>
> Well, no. the "canonical" upstream place is <sdk dir>/docs, which
> is /usr/lib/libreoffice/sdk/docs (which right now is a symlink.)
>
> The symlink is because upstreams make install (un)helpfully installs them
> in /usr/share/doc/libreoffice (!) - it's docs after all - and we ourselves move
> it just to a different package. And create the /usr/lib/libreoffice/sdk/docs
> link.
[...]
> theroretically it can be moved. /usr/lib/libreoffice/sdk/docs would result in
> a new symlink_to_dir conversion, though, too
>
> > Can you give me some hints how to speed up building libreoffice
> > packages, since all I'm interested in testing maintainer script changes ...
I read that as you wanted to try it? Have results already? (There are two
uploads coming up soonish).
Regards,
Rene
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