Control: severity -1 minor Control: retitle -1 Files in git-doc may not be findable by apt-file search
On Mon, 2018-08-13 at 19:27 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > tags 905938 + moreinfo > quit > > Hi Ben, > > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > git-rebase(1) refers to > > /usr/share/doc/git/html/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html, but this > > filename does not exist in any package. git-doc contains > > /usr/share/doc/git-doc/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html which is > > presumably the right file to refer to. > > $ ls -ld /usr/share/doc/git/html > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 30 2017 /usr/share/doc/git/html -> ../git-doc > > Is it configured differently on your machine? No, it's not. Now that I have git-doc installed, the symlink is there and I can access the document through both filenames. Initially I did not have git-doc installed, and "apt-file search" couldn't find the file by the name given in git-rebase(1) because it doesn't take symlinks into account. [...] > Arguably it would be better to install directly into > /usr/share/doc/git/html, but that would have broken links (e.g. > kernel-handbook links to [1]). Perhaps the package should install > docs directly to /usr/share/doc/git/html and put some symlinks in > /usr/share/doc/git-doc --- what do you think? I don't know. Do whichever you think is likely to cause least confusion. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The Peter principle: In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence.
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