Re: /usr/share/doc (was Re: weekly policy summary)
On 28-Jul-99, 21:37 (CDT), Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> wrote:
> And then there are the people who think that we should just say screw
> backwards compatibility and just move the directories without bothering
> with transition. Unfortunately many of them are already uploading
> packages, which means there's a time limit on the decision. It needs to
> be made now while there's still time to clean up their mess if we're going
> to clean it up at all.
Another option is to provide a package whose job is monitor the
directories in /usr/doc and /usr/share/doc, and maintain the
/usr/doc/<pkg> -> /usr/share/doc/<pkg> links as needed. A sysadmin who
needed/wanted the links could install the package, one who doesn't
wouldn't. It's admitted slightly more that looping in /usr/doc/share,
but not a whole lot. It has the advantage of providing the symlinks
without making each package deal with them. The disadvantage would be
that the symlinks would be out-of-date between runs, but I bet you could
run it from cron every hour (probably every 5 minutes!) without serious
system affect (except that it would spin up the disks on laptops, so
maybe not every 5 minutes.
But of course, such a package is not policy. It might be a way to
demonstrate that we don't actually need to deal with this in policy,
though.
Steve
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