Bug#423941: Documentation installation violates Debian policy (12.3)
Daniel Leidert
Version: 4.1.0-1
Severity: normal
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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.
PS: You should further think about registering the docs with doc-base
(maybe with different doc-base files per theme).
Regards, Daniel
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (850, 'unstable'), (700, 'testing'), (550, 'stable'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.3 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
- -- no debconf information
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Daniel Leidert
> 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.
>
>
> 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