Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Simon McVittie Newsgroups: linux.debian.bugs.dist,linux.debian.maint.python,linux.debian.policy Subject: Bug#906949: Clarify documentation location in a Python2-less distribution Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 17:50:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: Stuart Prescott , 906949@bugs.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-bugs-dist-request@lists.debian.org Wed Aug 22 15:42:14 2018 Old-Return-Path: X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.3 Reply-To: Simon McVittie , 906949@bugs.debian.org Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-Cc: Debian Policy Editors X-Debian-Pr-Message: followup 906949 X-Debian-Pr-Package: debian-policy X-Debian-Pr-Source: debian-policy X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.0000 Tokens: new, 15; hammy, 110; neutral, 31; spammy, 0. spammytokens: hammytokens:0.000-+--H*F:U*smcv, 0.000-+--H*r:smcv@debian.org, 0.000-+--H*rp:U*smcv, 0.000-+--H*RU:smcv@debian.org, 0.000-+--Hx-spam-relays-external:smcv@debian.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-Debian-Message: from BTS X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1480768 List-ID: List-URL: Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 12 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Cc: debhelper-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org, debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Original-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 16:39:19 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: <20180822153919.GA9303@espresso.pseudorandom.co.uk> X-Original-References: <5322612.sEOWlKWjuR@simurgh> <5322612.sEOWlKWjuR@simurgh> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.bugs.dist:914139 linux.debian.maint.python:10840 linux.debian.policy:6812 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