Bug#40706: AMENDMENT 17/7/99] /usr/share/doc vs. /usr/doc transition
Hi,
>>"Santiago" == Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
Santiago> But your proposed solution creates an inmense lot of work
Santiago> for everybody, just to keep compliance with a standard
Santiago> (FSSTND) which is not the one that we should follow. Every
You have a strange definition of immense.
Secondly, we are not doing this for compliance with FSSTND,
but for coherence and compatibility
Santiago> postinst has to be modified. Every postrm has to be
Santiago> modified. Multi-binary packages will have to be modified a
Santiago> lot, and in many cases maintainer scripts that never
Santiago> existed before will have to be created as new and installed
Santiago> by debian/rules.
So? Greater changes than just that were needed to move my
packages to FHS compliance in the first place. Every package
does indeed have to be modified to do that.
Santiago> This is a high price to pay, very high.
I think you may well be in the minority here.
Santiago> We have a standard documentation format, which is
Santiago> HTML. People is free of course to cd to /usr/doc by hand,
Santiago> but considering that many packages already use doc-base to
Santiago> register HTML docs, I firmly believe that our time would be
Santiago> *much* better spent if we concentrate, for example, on
Santiago> making doc-base the standard procedure for registering
Santiago> docs, instead of making the FHS transition a hell to
Santiago> everybody.
Not all packages use HTML. ANd if you think that converting
every package that does not use HTML to use HTML is easier than
adding a stanza to a couple of scripts, you have a very skewed
estimate.
Anyway, this is a non-sequitir. The user looking up the
documentation manually needs be supported too.
manoj
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