Ainsi parla Andreas Metzler le 315ème jour de l'an 2003: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:23:32PM +0100, Nicolas Rueff wrote: > > I'm attempting to become DD, so I'm currently packaging some > > software. One of this software must be packaged in two parts: one > > for the client part (tty/console), one for the X frontend, so the X > > frontend package depends on the client package. > > > My problem is that the README and changelog files are the same for > > both, so instead of install 2 times the same files. I attempt to > > make symlinks from README and changelog from the X frontend package > > to those from the client package, which seems correct since the X > > frontend package depends on the client package, so they will never > > be dead links. But lintian tells me that the README and changelog > > files from the X frontend package are zero-sized, which is quite > > normal since the links are broken while they are not installed. > > > So should I install the same version for the two packages, or rely > > on symlinks, ignoring lintians's errors ? > > The easy way around that is to make the complete directory > /usr/share/doc/xfrontend a symlink to /usr/share/doc/client-part > (policy 12.3).
That seems to be what I'm looking for: (from policy 12.3): /usr/share/doc/package may be a symbolic link to another directory in /usr/share/doc only if the two packages both come from the same source and the first package Depends on the second. > If you don't want to do that a bugreport against lintian (and linda > too, if the bug applies) might be called for. I did this myself some > months ago (#181899 and #181900), the bugs where supposed to be fixed > but I did not do my home-work and doublecheck that. - Sorry. Well, if I found some time to spend on it, I'll try to fix it. Tks. -- .,p**"*=b_ Nicolas Rueff ?P" .__ `*b Montbéliard - France |P .d?'`&, 9| http://rueff.tuxfamily.org M: |} |- H' [EMAIL PROTECTED] &| `#?_._oH' +33 6 77 64 44 80 `H. "`"`' GPG 0xDD44DAB4 `#?. ICQ 97700474 `^~. We are Penguin. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/E/IT d- s:- a24>? C++ UL+++$ P++ L++++ !E W+++ N++ o? K- w-- !O M- V-- !PS !PE !Y PGP+++ t+ 5 X+ R* tv++ b++++ DI++ D++ G++ e+++ h r- y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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