On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:01:35AM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > I just upgraded my unstable system today. In the process, my /usr/doc > > > -> /usr/share/doc symlink disappeared. I didn't notice till > > > afterwards, but I'm pretty sure that's what did it. (It was there > > > yesterday, and it's unlikely to have been anything else.) > > > > > > Below is the diff between yesterday and today's dpkg -l \* | grep ^ii > > > output; I haven't had a chance to examine all of these packages, > > > though. Anyone have any ideas which package might be guilty for doing > > > this? > > > > Every of them. None of them. Most probably, you just happened to > > remove or upgrade the last package containing /usr/doc in your system, > > and, as a result, dpkg removed it, since it was not a non-empty directory. > > What happened to the transition plan that said we'd ship woody with a > /usr/doc full of symlinks, not no /usr/doc at all?
Nothing. Note that Julian had a /usr/doc -> share/doc symlink. He didn't have a /usr/doc directory. I'm not certain what dpkg would do in this case, when no more packages are in /usr/doc, and it is a symlink.
