Re: Migrating doc directory to a symlink

2012-05-10 Thread Ben Finney
Sven Joachim writes: > Everybody seems to do the directory → symlink conversion a little > differently, but what Colin Watson did in the libpipeline-dev package > seemed most reasonable to me, so I followed his example. Thanks, I will inspect this solution … > Arguably this problem is very comm

Re: Migrating doc directory to a symlink

2012-05-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-05-10 20:06 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > On 10-05-12 01:22, Ben Finney wrote: >> Policy dictates, and ‘dpkg’ obeys, that this change is not respected. >> The result is that the existing directory remains, and is no longer >> populated in the new release. >> >> >> The package installs a du

Re: Migrating doc directory to a symlink

2012-05-10 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Ben and mentors, On 10-05-12 01:22, Ben Finney wrote: > Policy dictates, and ‘dpkg’ obeys, that this change is not respected. > The result is that the existing directory remains, and is no longer > populated in the new release. > > > The package installs a duplicate documentation directory co

Migrating doc directory to a symlink

2012-05-09 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy all, How should I consolidate the identical documentation directories of several binary packages from the same source package? Debian bug#672224 http://bugs.debian.org/672224> notes, correctly, that a new release switched ‘/usr/share/doc/python-coverage-dbg’ from a directory to a symlink.