On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 10:15:40AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 11:55:54AM +0100, Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > These Depends lines are required by Policy section 12.5. > > > > I suppose you mean: > > > > `/usr/share/doc/<package>' may be a symbolic link to another directory > > in `/usr/share/doc' only if the two packages both come from the same > > source and the first package Depends on the second. These rules are > > important because copyrights must be extractable by mechanical means. > > > > In that case you just need to move /usr/share/doc/<package> to the > > data package as /usr/share/doc/<package-data> and reverse the symlink. > > AFAIK replacing a symlink with a directory or vice versa is a rather > tricky process, and the only problem with circular depends is that their > postints can be run in arbitrary orders.
If you just ship /usr/share/doc/<package-data> as a copy of /usr/share/doc/<package>, you do not replace a directory by a symlink, only a symlink by a directory, so you just need to remove the symlink in the preinst. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
