Bug#69311: Woody is now clean of /usr/doc
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> The last package that installed a directory into /usr/doc in woody was
> fixed last night.
Cool.
> 3. At a later date, another policy (say, 4.X) shall ask for
> packages to no longer provide the link (and possibly remove
> links from /usr/doc). We can also provide a script (possibly
> in base-files postinst) that rm's symlinks from within
> /usr/doc. woody+1 may ship with such a script. (there was a
> proposal as well that potato+2 (woody+1) ships with just the
> prerms, and not the base file script, and potato+3 ships
> with the base-file script, but I am not sure this long a
> reversion period is required).
There i must say: Please *dont* rm that. I hate the new location even
if i build my Packages for that. So i have usr/doc symlinked to
usr/share/doc on every machine. If there is something which deletes
things there without prior permission from me (like a package deinstall
or a debconf question if it can remove that) it is at least a critical
bug. No matter what policy says here. :)
No, you cant test for symlinks and remove only them, some packages uses
symlinks for their documentation. :)
Just my 2¢ :)
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