Re: I'm sorry to open another can of worms but.. /usr/share/man transition
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 23:44:08 -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> I'm concerned about what happens when packages start using /usr/share/man.
> Suppose I convert alien to put it's man pages there. Alien is arch
> independant and there is no reason someone using stable can't install the
> latest version from unstable. But when they do, they discover they can no
> longer read alien's man page, becuase their old man browser doesn't grok
> /usr/share/man. What to do?
Point out that we only support truely smooth upgrades between releases and
that in this case, they need to upgrade their man-db too.
Ray
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