Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 10:56:59AM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> What should we do with /usr/share/doc directories when >> we ship <pkg>-byte? > > Well, upto now, i didn't do anything, and the doc directory was > spamoracle-byte. > > It is not a good solution though. And since both packages conflicts, it > makes sense to move the > >> I'd propose that: >> /usr/share/doc/pkg be the real directory and >> /usr/share/doc/pkg-byte be a symlink to it. > > Mmm, that or the other way around. > > I think it is less work to do it the other way around, you have to mess > more in the debian/rules file to do it like you propose. In the other > way around you just need to add a symlink, which can easily be done.
What I had in mind is if the user apt-get install ocaml-zoggy and ocaml-zoggy-byte is installed because no native version is available, he may want to search for documentation in /usr/share/doc/ocaml-zoggy rather than /usr/share/doc/ocaml-zoggy-byte. This was just a thought, before I do anything because dpkg does not want to replace dirs by symlinks and symlinks by dirs (for very good reasons), so I must do the right thing at the beginning. Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org
