On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Yann Dirson wrote: > I see that lintian lists the "comerr2g" package as having no copyright > file. > > There is one. However, I placed it in the /usr/doc/comerr2 directory, > as it seemed to me more "friendly" than having this evil "g" in the > dir name. > > I understand that the policy states "Text documentation should be > installed in a directory /usr/doc/<package>, where <package> is the > name of the package". > > > 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 think (know in my case) that many packages that came from the same source package only put the copyright in /usr/doc/source-package, rather than in every /usr/doc/binary-package. Perhaps the policy could be amended to either permit /usr/doc/source-package or suggest putting in symlinks from /usr/doc/binary-package to the common /usr/doc/source-package (as already done by tetex, libc6, several -dev and lib*g, and xemacs20). -Drake -- Dr. Drake Diedrich, Research Officer - Computing, (02)6279-8302 John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University 0200 Replies to other than [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be routed off-planet
