Bug#40706: usr/share/doc vs. /usr/doc
On 05-Jul-99, 15:23 (CDT), Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Presumed that _all_ packages for _all_ architectures are FHS compliant
> at the moment we release 2.2. I fear, that this isn't possible if we
> want to release potato in the next half year.
>
> [and]
>
> I would prefer a way using postinst or dpkg to provide the symlinks to
> be able to remove them at some point in the future without uploading
> all packages (with the symlink removed) again.
>
> But at the moment I don't fully know how to do this in detail. We
> should find a solution for this (which could be supported by
> debhelper) soon.
If you're concerned that packages won't be upgraded (new upload)
between now and the release of potato, how would doing anything with
postinst or debhelper do anything for us? (Agreed, debhelper needs to
be updated to use /usr/share/doc, but not everybody uses debhelper.) If
a package get's uploaded, there is no excuse for not moving things to
/usr/share/doc, as it's trivial change in the rules file.
(Yes there are other FHS issues that are harder to deal with, but we
aren't discussing them here.)
Steve
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