Re: lintian and e2fsprogs: doc-directory policy
On Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 03:04:53PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote:
>
> My question is: does anybody think it would be a good idea to somewhat
> relax the policy in this respect, by allowing a lib-package with a "g"
> in its name to have a docdir without this "g" ?
I don't ;). It would be more confusing than it helps. If I install a package
foo, I want to find all doc related files in /usr/doc/foo/. I don't want to
look at /var/lib/dpkg/info/foo.list first.
I use tab completion when I work interactively. This is another reason for
me not to care about an extra "g".
I agree that the "g" is not beatyful. But it is necessary for some libc6
packages. xemacs19 doc files also have to be kept in xemacs19, not in
xemacs.
> But it will cause a problem when there are libc5-compat packages that
> do not depend on their libc6 counterpart [I think it is allowed ?].
This is yet another reason.
Bye,
Marcus
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