Re: Bug#54985: debian-policy: handling of shared libraries

[Matthew Vernon <matthew@sel.cam.ac.uk>]

Roman Hodek writes:
 > 
 > > debhelper only affects the .deb file, and it should produce correct
 > > .debs regardless of version. "mybe some compilers etc." seems like
 > > FUD to me.
 > 
 > Wrong. Take as example that the potato debhelper installs docs into
 > /usr/share/doc, and the stable one to /usr/doc. Same for man pages...

And creates a symlink. So, given slink packages are security fixes:

a) this seems a pretty minor problem, given people will be able to
read /usr/man/foo and /usr/doc/foo
b) Adding two lines of code to debian/rules is so mind-blowingly easy
to do, surely???

Matthew 

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