On Thu, Nov 26 2009, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 01:38:32PM +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote: >> Is it considered acceptable for a package to blindly delete, then >> recreate its entire directory under /usr/share/doc upon installation or >> upgrade ? > > I would consider it extremely unacceptable. Your package can fiddle > with files it owns, but anything else is Right Out.
Right. But a package owns the directory /usr/share/doc/<package-name>, and other packages should not be dumping things in there -- there should be no expectation of any directory structure under another packages /usr/share/doc directory surviving. Given that, while I consider it odd, and I would want an explanation, I don't think other packages have a right to complain about it. Having sad that, I think this is not something anyone should do; there are probably better solutions that can be arrived at. manoj -- "The Computer made me do it." Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org