On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 10:33:10AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Joseph Carter wrote: > > In the case of /usr/share/man, we have already a sane transition. It's > > already in use by a number of packages. > > What is it? I'd love to make debhelper start using that directory by > default. (And BTW, is /usr/share/X11R6/man supposed to be used for X man > pages?) No, /usr/X11R6/man should remain /usr/X11R6/man---it's part of the whole /usr/X11R6-is-left-alone-for-now-at-least-even-though-we-don't-like-it thing. Just /usr/man moves. Have a look at /etc/manpath.config for what the paths are. Hmm, that should be /usr/local/share/man I think, which probably could be filed as a bug. > > If someone goes through the trouble of testing all of that and can show > > that dpkg does the right thing I think we should have base-files move the > > directory and create symlinks right away. > > I'm sure it'll break. Call me pessimistic. I don't think the > /usr/doc/<package> -> /usr/share/doc/<package> compatability linkfarm is too > bad for a transition strategy. The problem with the symlink farm is when do we get rid of them? And how? I think I suggested at some point a quick test for something like register-dochack that makes the /usr/doc symlink if it's there and removes it on package purge... At some point in the future when it becomes feasable to do so, all of the symlinks in /usr/doc pointing to /usr/share/doc would be simply removed. Pretty much that should be done by the first version of whatever package would provide the dochack thing that no longer does. => Does this make sense? (Better yet, does it make a few dollars?) Would debianutils be the best package for this or is there a better one? -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- <zarkov> "NT 5.0. All the bugs and ten times the code size!"
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