reopen 61116 thanks On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Adam Heath wrote: > > > package: base-files > > severity: important > > > > During my upgrade tonite, /etc/motd was flagged as a changed conf file, so I > > hit 'D' to see the diff. I was a little disturbed when I saw that it > > referenced both doc dirs now. > > > > As I understood it, for potato, /usr/share/doc is NOT manditory, and ALL > > pkgs > > that install there should also have a /usr/doc symlink. Only in woody will > > /usr/share/doc be manditory. However, even woody will still have /usr/doc > > symlinks. It is only in woody+1 where /usr/doc will be removed completely. > > I think you misunderstood the meaning of the phrase. > > It reads: > > "... the exact distribution terms for each program should be described in > the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright or > /usr/doc/*/copyright." > > This is just a hint to the user to let him know that the copyright files > are being physically moved from /usr/doc/*/copyright to > /usr/share/doc/*/copyright and that potato is a transition distribution > where you can physically find copyright files in both places. > > Since it is true that you should find them in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright > *or* /usr/doc/*/copyright, this is not a bug. Ok, I'll let it slid that both dirs are mentioned. However, the wording is still wrong. This phrase could be taken to mean that a file would be in either one or the other, not both. And anything in /usr/doc will be guaranteed to be in /usr/share/doc(if it isn't, it is a bug on the pkg). ----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK---- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL++++ P+ L++++ !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- ----BEGIN PGP INFO---- Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E 63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP AD46 C888 F587 F8A3 A6DA 3261 8A2C 7DC2 8BD4 A489 | 8BD4A489 GPG -----END PGP INFO----- ps: When this whole /usr/doc|/usr/share/doc thing was decided last fall, I don't think any consensus was reached as to when to notify the users that we were switching. The discussion was just about how to do it.
