Re: Consistent location of files in -doc packages.
> On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 07:00:55AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > > Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> writes:
> > > > 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.
> > > That only works if the pkg-doc package depends on pkg, which isn't
> > > alway necessary or desirable.
> > Why should that be the case?
>
> /usr/doc/pkg-doc/copyright = /usr/doc/pkg/copyright; so either pkg-doc
> doesn't have a copyright if pkg isn't installed, or pkg-doc and pkg have
> the same file included in both packages, and thus conflict.
Oops, I see the problem. I overcame it in sgb by having a link
/usr/doc/sgb/src -> /usr/doc/sgb-doc/examples (which was appropriate
in my case). Could this not be a general solution, albeit not a nice
one?
Julian
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