Re: Bug#69311: Woody is now clean of /usr/doc
>>"Joey" == Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
Joey> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> s/mandate/suggest/. (mandating would make all packages
>> suddenly get serious bugs).
Joey> I'm pretty sure that last time this came up we worked out that
Joey> debhelper generated postinsts already meet all three of those
Joey> criteria. So no, it would merely result in 10% of packages
Joey> getting serious bugs, and probably many less, since the example
Joey> in policy also meets all three criteria. Realstically, it would
Joey> require that that 10% be examined by hand, and maybe a few
Joey> percent would get serious bugs.
Then we may have policy amended so after we get down to the 10%.
>> Would all this not be achieved by merely removing the
>> directive to add the symlinks, and adding something to the effect
>> that symlinks in /usr/doc are obsolete and deprecated?
Joey> Yes. But wouldn't it mean filing serious bugs on all the packages
Joey> above? :-P
Violating a suggestion is a wishlist bug.
Joey> Debhelper generated prerms already deal with this properly. The
Joey> symlink is removed on upgrade, and currently reinstated by the
Joey> postinst, but if the postinst stops doing that (which I can
Joey> enable with a mere flip of a switch in debhelper), the symnlink
Joey> goes away exactly as desired.
Good. We'll put in the suggestion post woody, and the
debhelper changes.
manoj
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