Am 28.09.99 schrieb martin # internet-treff.uni-koeln.de ... Moin Martin!
MB> Marco> localhost/doc/ should point to /usr/share/doc. Please submit a MB> Marco> bug report for your http daemon. MB> The decision was made by the ctte, it is not yet implemented in the MB> policy document, but it will be soon. Maybe somebody should email such documents to the maintainers of packages like dhelp. I#ve never received a copy of the decision. How should I support it? MB> There is no requirement for Potato, that all packages support the MB> latest policy. policy 2.4.x is still allowed. Great, really great. This will cause all kinds of problems. MB> And these have the docs MB> in /usr/doc. Ok, then Debian 2.2 will be broken. And the next releases will have the same problems, because we still allow policy 2.4 packages without any symlinks. So it won#t be possible to install Debian 2.2 and 2.3 packages on one system with a working documentation. MB> With the decision on the /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc MB> transition, every packages docs are accessable through MB> /usr/doc/package. Wrong. Symlinks don#t work with http. MB> What do you demand for the short time, until the revised policy is MB> released? All packages using the symlink have to remove him? Lintian MB> must not report a missing symlink? Debhelper has to cease installing MB> this link? If you ask me: (1) All packages of Debian 2.2 must use /usr/share/doc. Otherwise we will have the same problems in Debian 2.3, when the user reads the documentation via /usr/share/doc. (2) All packages provides /usr/doc links. (3) http://localhost/doc/ points to /usr/share/doc, the user use /usr/share/doc instead of /usr/doc. This is a clean solution and not such a hack like the descripted decision. MB> My god, Marco, show some reason. (a) symlinks don#t work with the http protocol (b) old policy allowed -> problems in Debian 2.3. ... cu, Marco -- Linux HOWTOs - Die besten Loesungen der Linuxgemeinde ISBN 3-8266-0498-9 Uni: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fido: 2:240/6298.5 Mailbox: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tu-harburg.de/~semb2204/