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Re: A tiny bug with xserver-*: /usr/doc/bubble?



On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 07:08:25AM -0600, Anthony Fok wrote:
> I just installed 3.3.6-6pre7v1.  So far so good!  :-)
> 
> I was trying to look for the directory /usr/doc/xserver-svga,
> but it's not there, so I checked in
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-svga.postinst and noticed the following lines:
> 
> if [ -d /usr/doc -a ! -e /usr/doc/xserver-svga -a -d /usr/share/doc/bubble ]; then
>   ln -sf ../share/doc/xserver-svga /usr/doc/bubble
> fi
> 
> Hmm... interesting.  What is "bubble"?  :-)
> The same lines are in xserver-s3.postinst, so I assume all the xserver-*
> packages (except xserver-common) have this tiny "bubble" bug.

It's a meta-syntactic variable.  It's supposed to get replaced by a sed
operation at build time.  If it's not, that's definitely a bug.

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