usr/share/doc and dhelp
Hi,
I've got a little technical question regarding the transition from
/usr/doc to /usr/share/doc (although the process is still under discussion).
Some packages already did move their doc directory. If they had dhelp
or doc-base support there's a .dhelp file in the old /usr/doc/<package>
and its subdirectories. Obviously this is not removed when dpkg removes
the directory contents, hence this nearly empty directory remains in
/usr/doc. This is ugly, a waste of hd space and may cause a couple of
problems if we agree on a practical way for the transition.
1) What to do with package's leftover? I guess filing a bugreport should
be appropriate.
2) How to solve the problem?
rm -rf /usr/doc/<package> in postrm? or
find /usr/doc/<package> -name .dhelp -exec rm {} \; in prerm?
The second variant relies on the fact that no .dhelp will be installed
between rm'ing and package removal.
Thanks,
Ulf
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