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

Sven Joachim svenjoac at gmx.de
Fri Jan 18 21:39:06 UTC 2008


reopen 461440 
thanks

On 2008-01-18 22:21 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> 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.
>
>  Indeed; I thought about the changelog versions mismatches, but didn't
>  think about copyright which is more criticial; that said, I would guess
>  mismatches would be transient, in sid or when upgrading for example.
>  But well, let's not take the risk indeed.
>
>  (closing, thanks)

It seems you closed the wrong bug here, I'm correcting that.

Sven






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