Re: Bug#39830: [PROPOSED]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks
- To: Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de>
- Cc: debian-policy@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#39830: [PROPOSED]: get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks
- From: Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org>
- Date: 04 Jul 1999 12:26:55 +1000
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87lncx6tg0.fsf@faure.nls.net.au>
- In-reply-to: Roland Rosenfeld's message of "Mon, 28 Jun 1999 00:06:53 +0200"
- References: <87n1xu2y7b.fsf@dsp.net> <19990620223638.C24717@quango2.watervalley.net> <873dzlmlkc.fsf@dsp.net> <19990621152354.A2877@humberto.polisci.olemiss.edu> <19990622011159.D29435@spinnaker.rhein.de> <87emj418sg.fsf@glaurung.green-gryphon.com> <87r9n3ooho.fsf@dsp.net> <873dzjz9b2.fsf@glaurung.green-gryphon.com> <87emj2oa2h.fsf@dsp.net> <19990627152109.B3547@molehole> <19990628000653.C8227@spinnaker.rhein.de>
Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de> writes:
> But this doesn't solve the other problem: dpkg -L shows these symlinks
> as real man pages. This is annoying at least for me...
dpkg is not a documentation browser, it is a package manager. It really
doesn't matter if dpkg -L shows symlinks or not, that is not its purpose.
Martin.
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