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Bug#102199: Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition



On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:42:12PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:

> A sample diff against policy would be:
> 
> --- policy.sgml.orig    Fri Jun  1 19:40:16 2001
> +++ policy.sgml Mon Jun 25 20:29:29 2001
> @@ -6481,14 +6481,7 @@
>  
>               <p>
>                 HTML documents for a package are stored in
> -                <tt>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var></tt> but should
> -                be accessed via symlinks as
> -                <tt>/usr/doc/<var>package</var></tt><footnote>
> -                 <p>
> -                   for backward compatibility; see <ref
> -                     id="usrdoc">
> -                 </p>
> -               </footnote>
> +                <tt>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var></tt> 
>                 and can be referred to as
>                 <example compact="compact">
>  http://localhost/doc/<var>package</var>/<var>filename</var>
> @@ -7747,7 +7740,7 @@
>           </example>
>           To view the copyright file for a package you could use this command:
>           <example>
> -  dpkg --fsys-tarfile <var>filename</var>.deb | tar xof usr/doc/<var>\*</var>co
> pyright | less
> +  dpkg --fsys-tarfile <var>filename</var>.deb | tar xof usr/share/doc/<var>\*</
> var>copyright | less
>           </example>
>         </p>
>        </sect>

I'm not sure about all the preceding material that lead up to it, but
I like the proposal.  Seconded.

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