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Re: Bug#40706: usr/share/doc vs. /usr/doc



Hi,
>>"Santiago" == Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:

 Santiago> This is not as simple.

 Santiago> Symlinking /usr/doc/<package> to /usr/share/doc/<package>
 Santiago> directly is not supported by dpkg, so additional and ugly
 Santiago> tweaks would be required in maintainer scripts.

        Create the symlink in post inst. dpkg need not be involved.


 Santiago> I think this is much worse than doing the transition directly.

        What do you mean directly? Like insist all packages must move
 to /usr/share/doc, and the hell with the users in the meanwhile? That
 would be just plain shoddy packaging.

        manoj
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