Bill Mitchell: In my own packages, I've been trying to provide debianized docs which change references to /usr/local to just plain /usr where it's clear from the context that this would be incorrect on a debian system. I've come to think that even this amount of twiddling the upstream docs may be too much, and debian would be better off to adopt a policy of leaving such references untouched and providing clear info in system docs that such references in debian package docs should be taken as references to files in /usr, and not in /usr/local.
Comments? I don't see the point in prohibiting such work. However, it is work to make these kinds of corrections... Ideally, once software is configured to be installed at some destination, the installed form of the documentation should also receive this configuration information [unless location doesn't need to be mentioned at all]. Ideally this should be supported by the software's author. We've got a lot a fairly complex package specification already, let's not complicate it with needless rules. -- Raul
