Santiago Vila wrote: > No, we don't *need* any script to do this. One thing is that dpkg > allows this to be done and another different one is that we *have* to > do it. We agreed to make the transition on a per package basis. If we > consider the transition almost finished and we want an empty /usr/doc > we have just to *stop* requiring symlinks in maintainer scripts (which > is something that we would do sooner or later). Once we stop making > symlinks in /usr/doc, this directory will be emptied by itself, > cleanly, and without risking the integrity of the system by complex > scripts.
Take another look at where we are now. If 6 people fix one package a day until woody is frozen, we might just manage to convert all packages that do not yet use /usr/share/doc. If that is done, we only have to wait 2 more releases of debian until the transition is complete. On the other hand, if we use a script now, we can be done tomorrow. As for risking the integrity of the system with complex scripts, take a look at the tremendous number of ways that people have managed to screw this up doing it one package at a time (I just discovered a package that puts files in /usr/doc/foo with a symlink /usr/share/doc/foo to it; completly backwards from what policy requires.). Perhaps a single script is actually likely to be better? -- see shy jo
