Bug#35762: (lintian could check for hardcoded --infodir in maintaner scripts)
Manoj wrote, when closing this bug:
> Since the major rationale for this change was to ensure if we
> could make the transition to the FHS mandated location, which we have
> done, this becomes less of an issue. [...]
What do you mean by "we have done the transition"?
What we have done is that dpkg has hijacked /usr/info from base-files
by converting it to a symlink, while it still belongs to base-files.
Now we can't be sure if packages work because they actually follow
policy or because the symlink.
Well, we have the Contents-ARCH.gz files, and yes, they seem to indicate
that nobody is using /usr/info anymore, but I would only consider the
transition complete after /usr/info is removed.
Can we remove /usr/info?
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