Re: Bug#40706: usr/share/doc vs. /usr/doc
> > Create the symlink in post inst. dpkg need not be involved.
> Ah, but then this is not a simple one-line addition, as you said.
> For most of my packages, I have to change just one line in debian/rules
> to be FHS-compliant. With your proposal, the amount of work is not doubled
> by maybe multiplied by three or four.
It's a joke.. isn't it?
If this kind of hard work fixes are starting to became an issue for you,
you should probable stop maintaining some packages.
The sentence we should remember is this: We should support our users, and
we should try to keep compatible.
I'd say that 95% of packages use debhelper or debmake. It would be a simple
task to modify these programs to add these lines.
I still don't believe that this is your real reason. I think that you just
don't like to have backward compatible hacks, you don't like them. It's
understandable. But you should work out more compelling reasons... =)
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