[Pkg-emboss-devel] Bug#423941: Documentation installation violates Debian policy (12.3)

[Charles Plessy]

Le Tue, May 15, 2007 at 03:42:51AM +0200, Daniel Leidert a écrit :
> 
> The current documentation installation violates the Debian policy. You
> install the documentation into /usr/share/EMBOSS, which implies, that
> files therein are referenced from other files in emboss, emboss-lib or
> emboss-data. But then there is no symlink in /usr/share/doc/emboss(-doc)
> following the policy. If the files in this directory are not referenced,
> then the installation location itself violates the policy.

Hi again,

The reason why the documentation is not in /usr/share/emboss-doc is that
I am not yet sure if the applications need it to be in
/usr/share/EMBOSS or not. If yes, we will investigate the possibility of
changing this at build time, in order to confirm to the Debian policy.

The idea of splitting doc-base per theme is interesting: indeed the
EMBOSS applications are sorted by groups:

http://emboss.sourceforge.net/apps/release/4.1/emboss/apps/groups.html

Many thanks for your interest in EMBOSS !

-- 
Charles