On Tue, 02 Jan 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 03:44:10PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > I find it wasteful to install the same changelogs (both Debian and > > upstream) in binary packages which share the same sources. Why not > > have symlinks in place of these and perhaps an extra > > /usr/share/doc directory named the same as the source package in > > case a binary package of the same name doesn't exist. > > the problem is, you can only do that if you have one of the binary > package that is always installed with any of the other, else you will > have dangling symlinks, and it's prohibited by the policy (no to mention > that it would be quite useless !)
Additionally, there's no requirement that you have all of the binary packages being the same version, or that a particular binary package on one architecture is built with the same source on a different architecture. If the small waste of space that having changelogs in packages is a problem, you probably don't want any of the contents of the /usr/share/doc anyway. [I suppose this may be an argument for allowing diversions of directories to /dev/null in dpkg, but I personally don't have time to code that nor a desire to disappear.] Don Armstrong -- S: Make me a sandwich B: What? Make it yourself. S: sudo make me a sandwich B: Okay. -- xkcd http://xkcd.com/c149.html http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
