On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 01:57:51AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Consider something like: ``Your package has /usr/doc/copyright/package > instead of /usr/doc/package/copyright''. That almost certainly doesn't > cause a problem with the package itself. And the copyright is included, > and it doesn't actually get in anyone's way in particular. So, afaict, > the only reason to consider it a "bug" is because it doesn't conform > to current policy. I think it's perfectly reasonable to file bugs about > that, even if the package has a Standards-Version: header that matches > a version of policy that says to do it that way.
And don't forget about packages like dhelp, dwww, web servers, ... [All of which have been brought up in debian-policy discussion in the past months.] The above lintian warning is directly related to an interface, specified in policy, which some software uses. If, as some people have suggested, /usr/doc/ were completely useless, moving it would not be a problem. However, Debian is more than just a waste of disk space [this is a good thing, in my opinion]. -- Raul
