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| From | Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> |
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| Subject | Bug#906949: Clarify documentation location in a Python2-less distribution |
| Date | Wed, 22 Aug 2018 17:50:01 +0200 |
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 at 01:20:44 +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote:
> d) revert to /usr/share/doc/python-foo-doc: do we ignore policy's
> recommendation, overriding (or changing) dh_installdocs? While
> /usr/share/doc/main-package is only a recommendation in policy, 700
> python-foo-doc packages deliberately ignoring it seems wrong.
In dbus-python I left the documentation in /usr/share/doc/python-dbus-doc
(overriding dh_installdocs), but put symlinks to it in
/usr/share/doc/python{,3}-dbus so that users can find it by following
the Policy-recommended route. Maybe that's a reasonable compromise?
smcv
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Bug#906949: Clarify documentation location in a Python2-less distribution Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org> - 2018-08-22 17:30 +0200 Bug#906949: Clarify documentation location in a Python2-less distribution Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2018-08-22 17:50 +0200
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