Bug#461440: libgtk2.0-0: Must not use a symlink for /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-0

[Russ Allbery]

Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org> writes:

>  I'd rather have this relaxed in policy; would it be possible to drop
>  the strict versionning requirements for symlinks?

The reason for the Policy requirement is the copyright file, so I don't
think this can be relaxed without running the risk of getting the legal
material for the package wrong.  Suppose, for instance, that someone had
an old version of one package installed with a different license than the
package providing the /usr/share/doc directory.

>  I find the current Gtk dependencies saner than the previous ones which
>  complexified upgrades and were problematic on buildds and end user sid
>  systems due to arch: all / any version mismatches.  The symlinks are
>  useful to save space on e.g. live CDs where /usr/share/doc
>  proliferation has a non-negligible cost (some MBs).

The common thing to do in this situation is to ship only the Debian
changelog and the copyright file in the /usr/share/doc directory of the
other package, along with a pointer to whatever directory has the real
documentation.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>