Michael Meskes wrote:
> Do we place our doc directories under /usr/share/doc now? Or is /usr/doc
> still okay?
Although not yet formally in policy, you put them in
/usr/share/doc and create postinst and postrm files to
make/delete symlinks in /usr/doc (as done by the current
debhelper package). Don't forget to update your Standards-Version
line in the control file too (to something like 3.0.1 until this
gets formalized in new policy, I guess)
See this recent post in -policy:
Subject: Bug#45561: PROPOSAL] tech-ctte: /usr/share/doc
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 19:38:23 -0700
From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > The technical committee has been asked to resolve the issue of what to do
> > with /usr/share/doc. I propose we actually adopt their decision. I
> > propose further that we don't bother to have discussion--we're past all
> > that. The decision has been made and while possibly not the best one,
> > it's the one that is currently being used by debhelper and is the one
> > handed down to us.
> >
> > As for the technical implementation of the tech-ctte decision, I propose
> > we use joeyh's implementation found in any recently uploaded debhelper
> > package.
>
> Let's do it already.
I think someone needs to write a policy diff. It can use how debhelper does
things as the reccomended method, without metioning debhelper. For example:
Each package must maintain a /usr/doc/<package> symlink that points to
the new location of its documentation in /usr/share/doc. The symlink must
be created when the package is installed; it cannot be contained in the
package itself due to problems with dpkg. One reasonable way to accomplish
this is to put the following in the package's postinst:
if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then
if [ -d /usr/doc -a ! -e /usr/doc/#PACKAGE# -a -d
/usr/share/doc/#PACKAGE# ]; then
ln -sf ../share/doc/#PACKAGE# /usr/doc/#PACKAGE#
fi
fi
And the following in the package's prerm:
if [ \( "$1" = "upgrade" -o "$1" = "remove" \) -a -L /usr/doc/#PACKAGE# ];
then
rm -f /usr/doc/#PACKAGE#
fi
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