-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Anthony Towns <[email protected]> wrote: >I think the most efficient way of handling usr/doc for woody will be to >have everything reference /usr/share/doc, and require all packages to >put their files in /usr/share/doc, and to make symlinks in /usr/doc. The >latter is mainly for partial upgrades. > >To achieve this, we only need two changes: one, programs that access docs >need to do so via /usr/share/doc, and two, we need to upgrade any existing >bugs about usr/doc to serious (note that current policy already lists this as >a "must", so this is a change in spirit not letter).
I would prefer to see only bugs about placement upgraded to serious; what some man page or other refers to hardly seems RC to me. (Or maybe that's what you meant.) >The packages this affects are (roughly): http://qa.debian.org/fhs.html has counts of what the current Contents files say on each arch, with the full list for i386. >--- policy.sgml.orig Fri Jun 1 19:40:16 2001 >+++ policy.sgml Mon Jun 25 20:29:29 2001 >@@ -6481,14 +6481,7 @@ > > <p> > HTML documents for a package are stored in >- <tt>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var></tt> but should >- be accessed via symlinks as >- <tt>/usr/doc/<var>package</var></tt><footnote> >- <p> >- for backward compatibility; see <ref >- id="usrdoc"> >- </p> >- </footnote> >+ <tt>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var></tt> > and can be referred to as > <example compact="compact"> > http://localhost/doc/<var>package</var>/<var>filename</var> >@@ -7747,7 +7740,7 @@ > </example> > To view the copyright file for a package you could use this command: > <example> >- dpkg --fsys-tarfile <var>filename</var>.deb | tar xof >usr/doc/<var>\*</var>copyright | less >+ dpkg --fsys-tarfile <var>filename</var>.deb | tar xof >usr/share/doc/<var>\*</var>copyright | less > </example> > </p> > </sect> Seconded. - -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Debian GNU/Linux developer iD8DBQE7NztuMVrRHkkXpRQRAhrdAJ9mkvoRqnzkLiwAyIGnhCXESEkIeACfXIVX P0MfOUDEdgkNbbREd74M/SQ= =W9F8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
