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Bug#69311: PROPOSAL] Finishing the /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc transition.



On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 11:31:32AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:16:34PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > Now that potato has been released, I propose that we start deprecating
> > the /usr/doc compatibility symlinks, at the same time we make
> > using /usr/share/doc a nearly-release-goal for woody.
> I think an addendum is needed to this proposal -- if any package *has*
> had symlinks in /usr/doc, then it needs to clean them up in its
> install scripts, now, and possibly forever.

Huh?

This is already handled by the packages' prerm scripts. If future versions
of packages don't do *anything at all about the symlinks* they'll still
be removed.

Cheers,
aj

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