Bug#42477: PROPOSED} delay the /usr/doc transition till after potato
Hi,
>>"Mike" == Mike Goldman <whig@by.net> writes:
Mike> I happen to disagree very much with the symlink proposals I have thus
Mike> far seen, as well. While it may be convenient for users to access the
Mike> documentation as though it were in /usr/doc, when it had in fact moved,
Mike> there is just no getting around the fact that things occasionally *do*
Mike> move, and for good reasons - retaining symlinks perpetually would just
Mike> not be a good thing. Sooner or later, we have to tell our users that
Mike> the files they are looking for are in a new place, in such a way which
Mike> does not create confusion.
a) the symlinks are only for the transition period.
b) no proposal advocated having symlinks or maintainer scripts around
forever.
manoj
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