On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:35:33AM +0000, David Goodenough wrote: > Why do the cron.daily/weekly sysklogd script exit doing nothing if the > /usr/share/doc/sysklogd directory not exist? It rightly checks that > the binaries it needs are there, but the doc directory is purely > documentation.
That's a bug. Debian policy says that packages may not require /usr/share/doc to exist. I see bug #222758 was filed about this, but closed (incorrectly, in my opinion). I'll follow up to it. > I hit this on a stripped down emebedded installation which I > noticed was not rotating log files correctly. I had removed > almost all of /usr/share/doc to save space. Are there other > packages which rely on these doc directories existing? There shouldn't be. If there are, they're bugs too. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

