Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is common practice that /usr/share/doc/<package>/ is a symlink to > /usr/share/doc/<other_package>/ if <package> Depends: <other_package>. > Therefore I don't see why the copyright file couldn't be a symlink to > /usr/share/doc/<other_package>/copyright.
When would you want to do this and not link the whole doc directory? The goal is to ensure that the copyright file is always installed and accurate for that binary package, so it must be impossible for it to be symlinked to another package that isn't a dependency or that doesn't come from exactly the same source package (since licensing information changes). It always seemed to me that those cases where one can still get this information from another package are pretty much exactly the cases where one wants to symlink the whole doc directory and are permitted to do so by policy. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
