Re: Bug#62352: usr/doc and /usr/share/doc confusion

["Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo" <jkaivo@elijah.nodomainname.net>]

Bart-Jan Vrielink <bartjan@vrielink.net> writes:

> > If there is documentation in /usr/share/doc but not in /usr/doc (as a
> > symlink), that package is broken.
> 
> On a recently (15 minutes ago) updated Potato system I get the following:

--snip--

> Does this mean that above packages are broken ??

Yes. From Policy:

6.4 Accessing the documentation

   Former Debian releases placed all additional documentation in
   /usr/doc/package. To realize a smooth migration to
   /usr/share/doc/package, each package must maintain a symlink
   /usr/doc/package that points to the new location of its documentation
   in /usr/share/doc/package[5].

   5. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/footnotes.html#6

And the footnote:

6

   These symlinks will be removed in the future, but they have to be
   there for compatibility reasons until all packages have moved and the
   policy is changed accordingly.

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