On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 02:39:00PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > > Are we still supposed to maintain the /usr/share/doc/x -> /usr/doc/x
> > > link for uploads to sarge?
> >
> > No.
>
> Of course policy still says we must. I don't know when we want to change
> that; now or when a lot of packages have stopped including it, or what.
Why wait? It's not like we'll be adding a requirement for every
package to drop it (at least, not right away).
--- policy.sgml.old 2002-08-19 22:47:16.000000000 +0100
+++ policy.sgml 2002-08-19 22:51:21.000000000 +0100
@@ -7391,37 +7391,10 @@
in <tt>/usr/doc/<var>package</var></tt>. To realize a
smooth migration to
<tt>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var></tt>, each package
- must maintain a symlink <tt>/usr/doc/<var>package</var></tt>
- that points to the new location of its documentation in
- <tt>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var></tt><footnote>These
- symlinks will be removed in the future, but they have to be
- there for compatibility reasons until all packages have
- moved and the policy is changed accordingly.</footnote>.
- The symlink must be created when the package is installed;
- it cannot be contained in the package itself due to problems
- with <prgn>dpkg</prgn>. One reasonable way to accomplish
- this is to put the following in the package's
- <prgn>postinst</prgn><footnote>
- <p>
- The <tt>debhelper</tt> script
- <prgn>dh_installdocs</prgn> does this automatically.
- </p>
- </footnote>:
- <example compact="compact">
-if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then
- if [ -d /usr/doc -a ! -e /usr/doc/<var>package</var> \
- -a -d /usr/share/doc/<var>package</var> ]; then
- ln -sf ../share/doc/<var>package</var> /usr/doc/<var>package</var>
- fi
-fi
- </example>
- and the following in the package's <prgn>prerm</prgn>:
- <example compact="compact">
-if [ \( "$1" = "upgrade" -o "$1" = "remove" \) \
- -a -L /usr/doc/<var>package</var> ]; then
- rm -f /usr/doc/<var>package</var>
-fi
- </example>
+ added a symlink <tt>/usr/doc/<var>package</var></tt>
+ that pointed to the new location of its documentation in
+ <tt>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var></tt>. This is no
+ longer necessary, and packages may now remove the symlinks.
</p>
</sect>
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