On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 12:19:13PM -0800, Sebastian Haase wrote: > I did this on my system: > $ /bin/ls /usr/doc/ >1 > $ /bin/ls /usr/share/doc/ >2 > $ diff --suppress-common -W40 -y 1 2 > This produces 63(!!!) lines:
Those that exist in /usr/doc but not in the other one are packages that don't conform to newer Policy. On my system, the same thing produces 48 lines. <sigh> [...] > joe < It looks like you aren't running unstable, because I'm sure joe's been converted to the new scheme? > ISN'T THIS JUST A MESS ??? > I cannot file a bug report against all these packages. > If the bug in dpkg is fixed now, why can we not fix > things now one for all ?? The same question has been raised on debian-devel... I don't know if something was done. > instead of > rm -rf /usr/doc; ln -s /usr/share/doc /usr/doc > I would have to do something like(!) > mv /usr/doc/* /usr/share/doc; ln -s ... Perhaps something like: find /usr/doc -type d -maxdepth 1 | xargs -iDIR mv DIR /usr/share/doc rm -rf /usr/doc ln -s /usr/share/doc /usr/doc That shouldn't have any bad effects, dpkg should follow the /usr/doc symlink nowadays. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
