On Fri, 02 Mar 2001, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Configuration file locations are oftenn changed for Debian. However the > manual pages still refer to the upstream locations. This makes it very > difficult to find out where to make changes, particularly for new users. AFAIK what you describe is a bug. manpages and other documentation should be patched to point to the correct locations, OR the change of locations must be made clear in README.Debian, IMHO (and also IMHO that's common sense). > I think that all documentation must reflect the Debian locations of > configuration and other files, and that manpages and the like should be > altered as necessary to achieve this. > > Comments? I've seen many manpages in Debian altered to do exactly what you describe. Actually, I've seen upstream code that automatically does this when properly configured. I wonder if anyone ever refused doing such a change? I have doubts we need to add such to policy... Maybe mentioning "make sure you update the location of files in the documentation you are packaging" in the packaging-guide (if it's not there already, that is) as a remider would be enough? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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