On Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 03:04:53PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > > My question is: does anybody think it would be a good idea to somewhat > relax the policy in this respect, by allowing a lib-package with a "g" > in its name to have a docdir without this "g" ?
I don't ;). It would be more confusing than it helps. If I install a package foo, I want to find all doc related files in /usr/doc/foo/. I don't want to look at /var/lib/dpkg/info/foo.list first. I use tab completion when I work interactively. This is another reason for me not to care about an extra "g". I agree that the "g" is not beatyful. But it is necessary for some libc6 packages. xemacs19 doc files also have to be kept in xemacs19, not in xemacs. > But it will cause a problem when there are libc5-compat packages that > do not depend on their libc6 counterpart [I think it is allowed ?]. This is yet another reason. Bye, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
