On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 04:59:39PM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Changes: > debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low > . > * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put > stuff there (and won't until people come up with a general transition > strategy or decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now > compresses various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: > #40892)
In the case of /usr/share/man, we have already a sane transition. It's already in use by a number of packages. Did we come up with a sane transition for /usr/share/info yet? /usr/share/doc is going to be tougher. The biggest difficulty I've heard is that a million and one compatibility symlinks is not appealing, and I agree. And who knows WHAT dpkg will do when /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc and a package moves from using /usr/doc/package to /usr/share/doc/package given its track record for symlink troubles. If someone goes through the trouble of testing all of that and can show that dpkg does the right thing I think we should have base-files move the directory and create symlinks right away. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- <dark> Knghtbrd: We have lots of whatevers. <Knghtbrd> dark - In Debian? Hell yeah we do!
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