I ran this command the other day to find packages that use files in /usr/share/doc in their postinsts. When dpkg gets directory exclude support these will presumably all break. They could break today if the admin removed /usr/share/doc in the middle of a dpkg run. I filed bugs on adduser, apt-listbugs, dpkg, libqt3c102-mt, sysvinit, xmcd, and viewcvs.
$ grep /usr/share/doc /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.postinst \
|grep -v install-docs |grep -v /usr/doc | less
It filters out some things but you have to read it and look for lines that
are really accessing /usr/share/doc/.
One thing I notcied, and did not file bugs on is a lot of packages do
something like this:
ln -sf groff-base /usr/share/doc/groff
Of course this fails if you have no /usr/share/doc and dpkg has excludes
support! I have to wonder why these things are done programmatically in
the postinst, instead of just dropping the appropriate link into the
data.tar.gz, but I hesitate to file bugs on there as there are quite a
few and it doesn't break yet, or really voiolate a tight reading of
policy.
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