Re: packages using files in /usr/share/doc

2003-04-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 12:12:05PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > 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 h

packages using files in /usr/share/doc

2003-04-20 Thread Joey Hess
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-listb