Re: lintian and e2fsprogs: doc-directory policy

[Drake Diedrich <Drake.Diedrich@anu.edu.au>]

On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Yann Dirson wrote:

> I see that lintian lists the "comerr2g" package as having no copyright
> file.
> 
> There is one. However, I placed it in the /usr/doc/comerr2 directory,
> as it seemed to me more "friendly" than having this evil "g" in the
> dir name.
> 
> I understand that the policy states "Text documentation should be
> installed in a directory /usr/doc/<package>, where <package> is the
> name of the package".
> 
> 
> 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 think (know in my case) that many packages that came from the same
source package only put the copyright in /usr/doc/source-package, rather
than in every /usr/doc/binary-package.  Perhaps the policy could be
amended to either permit /usr/doc/source-package or suggest putting in
symlinks from /usr/doc/binary-package to the common 
/usr/doc/source-package (as already done by tetex, libc6, several -dev and
lib*g, and xemacs20).

   -Drake

--
Dr. Drake Diedrich, Research Officer - Computing, (02)6279-8302
John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University 0200
Replies to other than Drake.Diedrich@anu.edu.au will be routed off-planet