On 6 Apr 1999, Greg Stark wrote: > Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 04:08:49PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > I'm now looking for seconds for this proposal. > > why?
According to FHS, /usr/doc should be empty in the long run. This change has been already made in slink's base-files, with the idea that people installing in a slink system a potato package which refers to the new location will actually refer to an existing file in slink. [ Why "licenses" and not "copyright"? Because /usr/doc/copyright used to contain all the copyright files, plus the four common licenses GPL, LGPL, Artistic and BSD. Once /usr/doc/copyright is almost empty it makes sense to rename "copyright" to "licenses" ]. [ Why "common-licenses" and not "licenses"? Because if I put just "licenses" I'm sure I will receive a bug report saying "license foo is not included in the licenses directory. They are not all the licenses, just a few common ones ]. I could use /usr/share/doc/common-licenses but I think this is too long to be quoted in copyright files (after all, the GPL does not "document" nothing, it is only a license). I hope this explains the "why". If you think /usr/share/common-licenses is definitely wrong and you think it should be changed again, please object, we will discuss about it, and then this proposal will probably go to /dev/null. Thanks. -- "c989ae73dd502e4a3543a62499e64e41" (a truly random sig)
