> > > Except that a package named doc-rfc will already have files in > > > /usr/share/doc/doc-rfc (copyright and so forth), and so having others in > > > /usr/share/doc/rfc is a little weird and unexpected. > > > > For you. Not for me. And I can't think why it would be for the users. > > Because after installing a package, they are used to looking in > /usr/share/doc/<pkgname>? > > I expect that when I install a package named doc-xxxx, all if its > content is going to be in /usr/share/doc/doc-xxxx. The Debian standard, > whether spelled out in policy or not, supports such expectation.
That's a half true. Many packages install files in the doc directory of the package being documented. /usr/share/doc/doc-rfc/ should only have a changelog and a README. Besides, it would be nice to have many rfc packages: doc-rfc-mail, doc-rfc-web, all of them puting packages in /usr/share/doc/rfc. And there could be symlinkf pointing to the most recent versions of standards: /usr/share/doc/rfc/HTTP would point to rfc2616.txt.
