Re: Bug#62378: Redundant directory and package name
On 21-Aug-00, 14:10 (CDT), Nicol?s Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> wrote:
> > Except that a package named doc-rfc will already have files in
> > /usr/share/doc/doc-rfc (copyright and so forth), and so having others in
> > /usr/share/doc/rfc is a little weird and unexpected.
>
> For you. Not for me. And I can't think why it would be for the users.
Because after installing a package, they are used to looking in
/usr/share/doc/<pkgname>?
I expect that when I install a package named doc-xxxx, all if its
content is going to be in /usr/share/doc/doc-xxxx. The Debian standard,
whether spelled out in policy or not, supports such expectation.
Steve
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