Re: Directories named after packages

2011-01-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:44:43AM +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote: > On 10/01/2011 22:52, Frank Küster wrote: > > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > >> 3. Historic/Upstream choice (?): /usr/share/doc/texmf > >>(Several TeX packages uses this.) > > > > That's old-fashioned (or, well, obsolete). > >

Re: Directories named after packages

2011-01-10 Thread Vincent Danjean
On 10/01/2011 22:52, Frank Küster wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > >> 3. Historic/Upstream choice (?): /usr/share/doc/texmf >>(Several TeX packages uses this.) > > That's old-fashioned (or, well, obsolete). > > I think (without looking at code or our sub-policy) this should be a > symlink to /u

Re: Directories named after packages

2011-01-10 Thread Frank Küster
Osamu Aoki wrote: > 3. Historic/Upstream choice (?): /usr/share/doc/texmf >(Several TeX packages uses this.) That's old-fashioned (or, well, obsolete). I think (without looking at code or our sub-policy) this should be a symlink to /usr/share/texmf/doc - and TeX packages should make sure th

Re: Directories named after packages

2011-01-06 Thread Miles Bader
Russ Allbery writes: > I'm hesitant to recommend moving the documentation to /usr/share/doc/foo > when we've always put it in a directory named after the package in the > past; I'm afraid long-time Debian users won't be able to find it. I'd certainly be confused! Being able to just look in /usr/

Re: Directories named after packages

2011-01-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Directories named after packages"): >> See http://bugs.debian.org/106073 and the discussion there. Wording >> proposals very welcome. > OMG it's from 2001 ... Yeah, it's almost old enough that I can

Re: Directories named after packages

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Directories named after packages"): > Ian Jackson writes: > > > For example, there has been a recent trend for FOO's documentation > > package FOO-doc to contain /usr/share/doc/FOO-doc/html/index.html (or > > whatever). I think

Re: Directories named after packages

2011-01-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > For example, there has been a recent trend for FOO's documentation > package FOO-doc to contain /usr/share/doc/FOO-doc/html/index.html (or > whatever). I think this is daft. It should be in > /usr/share/doc/FOO/html/index.html. That way you can find the > documentation fo

Re: Directories named after packages

2011-01-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 02:54:38PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Many of the bits of the policy manual, and informal practice, suggest > naming directories after your package. > ... > In general, the principle should be that where to look in the > filesystem for something should not depend on h