Re: Consistent location of files in -doc packages.

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

> As a user I would like it if Debian had a policy on the location of the
> 'Additional documentation' that is supplied in the -doc packages as
> per Section 6.3 of policy-manual 3.0.0.0.  Many -doc packages place the
> actual documentation in the base package's /usr/{share/}doc/<package>
> directory while others place the documentation in the
> /usr/{share/}doc/<package>-doc directory. The placement of the
> documentation should be consistent for all -doc packages.  My
> preference would be to have the documents in the -doc directory.  This
> [...]

I would suggest what several packages already do: install the docs in
/usr/doc/pkg and have /usr/doc/pkg-doc as a symlink to /usr/doc/pkg.

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
        Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg