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

[Daniel Leidert]

Am Dienstag, den 15.05.2007, 11:08 +0900 schrieb 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.

In this case, the policy just wants to see a symlink. Read the short
section 12.3. I would expect a symlink in /usr/share/doc/emboss(-doc) in
this case. If there is no dependency on this path, the documentation
should be moved in /usr/share/doc/emboss(-doc).

> 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 !

I want to test the different sequence formats to check, if an
association of the emboss programs (a special program) with MIME types
would be useful. I just want to examine the situation.

Regards, Daniel