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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