On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 09:57:55PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> I would like to mention that according to policy 12.3:
>
> Packages must not require the existence of any files in
> `/usr/share/doc/' in order to function [1]. Any files that are
> referenced by programs but are also useful as standalone documentation
> should be installed under `/usr/share/<package>/' with symbolic links
> from `/usr/share/doc/<package>'.
>
> This means that we can't rely on the documentation being ("physically")
> in /usr/share/doc at all.
This discussion isn't about whether the documentation should go into
/usr/share/doc or not. Rather, for documentation that is already in
/usr/share/doc, the question is in which subdirectory it should be.
> Because of the above, I would object to a policy mandating whether
> the doc must be physically in /usr/share/doc/<package> or
> /usr/share/doc/<package>-doc.
In the light of what I said above, it doesn't seem to me that your objection
is relevant.
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