Re: policy change to 3.0.0: not before release? (was: Re: when move /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc ?
On Thu, 01 Jul 1999, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> (And /usr/share/doc could be dealt with with some hacks to dpkg, if
> we expect all of /usr/doc to move... just make potato's dpkg rewrite
> the filenames and modify /var/lib/dpkg/package.list accordingly.)
It's not that easy. Don't forget, that some programs (e.g. xfig)
directly access their documentation at /usr/doc/<package>/<foo>. If
you extend dpkg to move these file to /usr/share/doc/<package>/<foo>,
the programs will fail to access the documentation.
The only way of a smooth transition seems to use
/usr/share/doc/<package> for new packages with a symmlink
/usr/doc/<package> pointing to /usr/share/doc/<package> being
_required_ (this symlink should be required by the policy). In the far
future, when every package moved it's documentation to /usr/share/doc,
we can begin removing these symlinks.
So users don't have to search for documentation (it is still available
as /usr/doc/<package> and in the far future as
/usr/share/doc/<package>) and also web servers can access the
documentation (you have to enable "follow-symlinks" or something like
this for /usr/doc, but this may be already needed, because of the
/usr/doc/<package1> -> /usr/doc/<package2> symlinks which already
exist).
Ciao
Roland
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