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Re: /usr/doc



On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 09:09:26PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Joey Hess wrote:
> > So would anyone murder me if the code in debhelper to make postinst
> > scripts manage /usr/doc links just went missing? This would of course
> > cause the link to go away when packages were upgraded to versions built
> > with the new debhelper. Since we'll be recompiling lots of stuff anyway
> > in sarge for the gcc 3.0 transition, if this happens first we'll lose
> > all that /usr/doc stuff essentially for free.
> 
> Er, if the code goes missing, it wouldn't cause the links to go missing.  That
> would require some bit of code to exist.

No, it wouldn't. debhelper-generated prerms remove the /usr/doc symlink
on upgrade.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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