Re: Bug#40706: usr/share/doc vs. /usr/doc

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Joey Hess wrote:

> Santiago Vila wrote:
> > I would like you to elaborate on that. I think it makes sense that the
> > more difficult the migration process is, the longer it will take, and your
> > proposal complicate things in a considerable degree.
> 
> That's simply not so. Whatever we eventually decide on, 60% of the packages
> in debian will support it on the next build, because they use debhelper. 15%
> more will use debstd and presumably support it just as quickly. That leaves
> a meager 25%, some of which should to have maintainers who know exactly how
> building a debian package works, and can presumably handle this on thier
> own, and some of which have idle maintainers and won't be fixed anyway.

Yes, I agree helper packages would help, but those who chose not to use a
helper package should not be "punished" for that.

Thanks.

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