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Re: usr/share/doc and dhelp



Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
>  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.

Why doesn't dhelp clean these up on it's own? 

-- 
see shy jo


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