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



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

Could you be a little more clear? Symlinking of /usr/doc/<package-foo> to
/usr/doc/<package-bar> clearly works and doesn't bother dpkg at all. Many
packages do this already.

How is pointing the symlink at /usr/share going to make dpkg upset?

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see shy jo


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