Joseph Carter wrote: > In the case of /usr/share/man, we have already a sane transition. It's > already in use by a number of packages.
What is it? I'd love to make debhelper start using that directory by default. (And BTW, is /usr/share/X11R6/man supposed to be used for X man pages?) > Did we come up with a sane transition for /usr/share/info yet? > > > /usr/share/doc is going to be tougher. The biggest difficulty I've heard > is that a million and one compatibility symlinks is not appealing, and I > agree. And who knows WHAT dpkg will do when /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc > and a package moves from using /usr/doc/package to /usr/share/doc/package > given its track record for symlink troubles. > > If someone goes through the trouble of testing all of that and can show > that dpkg does the right thing I think we should have base-files move the > directory and create symlinks right away. I'm sure it'll break. Call me pessimistic. I don't think the /usr/doc/<package> -> /usr/share/doc/<package> compatability linkfarm is too bad for a transition strategy. -- see shy jo
