Well, it uses ./whatever so you can extract a deb anywhere on the fs, (If
you weren't installing it). FHS specifies /usr/share/doc for docs while
we use to use /usr/doc
Hope this helps some.
Andrew Lenharth
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On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Paul Harris wrote:
> hi,
>
> i'm in progress of fixing up the whole of vrweb (i think i can close all
> the bugs! woo hoo), but am having some problems (probably something
> simple):
>
> - I change the maintainer entry (i want to become a debeloper... how many
> times has someone come up with that one?) and try to run "dch -v 1.5-3" to
> change the version number from 1.5-2, but the editor put Fabien's name
> (automatically) at the end of my changes spot. i entered my stuff and
> name, saved but it exited with:
>
> dch: fatal error at line 283:
> Error editing the changelog: Illegal seek
>
> what am i supposed to do? just manually edit everything?
>
> - i noticed that the produced debian package (i just had to make one to
> see what happened, without all the changes stuff) has all its paths
> starting with '.', eg:
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root 2515880 1999-09-23 01:22:34 ./usr/X11R6/bin/vrweb
> whats that all about?
>
> - i noticed that the docs are all split up:
> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-09-23 01:22:30 ./usr/doc/vrweb/
> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-09-23 01:22:30
> ./usr/doc/vrweb/examples/
> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-09-23 01:22:31 ./usr/share/
> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-09-23 01:22:30 ./usr/share/doc/
> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-09-23 01:22:35 ./usr/share/doc/vrweb/
> -rw-r--r-- root/root 2442 1997-05-28 02:01:18
> ./usr/share/doc/vrweb/README-Unix.gz
>
> i was going to look at correcting this, but i noticed that the
> debian-policy 3.0.1.1 (current right?) says that docs go in /usr/share/doc
> . thats not right is it? what about all this FHS stuff thats been flying
> around in debian-devel/debian-policy? have i missed something?
>
> hope someone can enlighten me... :)
>
> Paul
>
>
>
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