Julian Gilbey wrote: > The dpkg-buildpackage program (and maybe autobuilders as well?) could > be modified so that after the .deb is built, before anything is signed > or similar, something like the following is done (within any necessary > fakeroot-type environment, of course):
This ignores the issue of partial upgrades. That is the issue, modifying packages to use the new directories is not going to be a large problem. This is also rather pointless, as once debhelper is modified to use /usr/share/ a simple rebuild will make about 70% of the packages in debian use it. Debheper does it cleanly. Your proposal is a horrid hack. It will also render md5sums files incorrect BTW. -- see shy jo
