> My idea (please note, this is only a first idea and there may be some
> difficulties with which should be fixed) is, that the new (FHS aware)
> debhelper could add something in postinst, which creates a symlink
> /usr/doc/<package> pointing to /usr/share/doc/<package> if (and only
> if) there is no special "flag" file (a conffile) which tells postinst,
> that this system is fully FHS compliant. In addition to this postrm
> should remove this symlink if it exists.
(Copying from previous message in this thread =/ )
Why dont't we simply modify debhelper and similar tools to add this to
postinst of packages: (only if upgrading from a pre-FHS version)
if [ $1 = configure -a { $2 is a previous version than 1.2 } ]; then
ln -sf ../share/$package /usr/doc/$package
fi
And it would be just adding a
dh_doc_hack 1.2 ( <- first version complying with FHS)
to debian rules...
This would mean that the symlinks would only be created the first time the
user replaces a FSSTND package with a FHS package. Later the user could
always remove that script. I propose too that new (initialy released
complying with FHS) packages do a:
if [ -d /usr/doc ]; then ln -sf ../share/doc/$package /usr/doc/$package ; fi
So a user would be able to just rm -rf /usr/doc sometime in the future...
