Bug#804317: libreoffice-dev-doc: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: /usr/share/doc/libreoffice-dev-doc/docs -> ../libreoffice-dev/docs

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 02:35:25PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 07:27:32PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> > > Lets consider the locations
> > > ./usr/share/doc/libreoffice-dev-doc/docs
> > > ./usr/share/doc/libreoffice-dev/docs
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > as "burned" and recovering them from possible nested symlinks will be
> > > nearly impossible.

That one's though (ok, without the docs/, but without the docs/ we'd
"pollute" the dir where changelog etc are in) recommended in the policy:

     12.3
          recommend to ship additional documentation for package `pkg' in a
          separate package `pkg-doc' and install it into
          `/usr/share/doc/pkg'.

> > > So let's move the tree away from there, e.g. to
> > > ./usr/share/doc/libreoffice-dev-doc/devdocs
> > > (important: this directory must have never been used before)
> > > Is the location /usr/share/doc/libreoffice-dev-doc/docs used anywhere?
> > 
> > Well, no. the "canonical" upstream place is <sdk dir>/docs, which
> > is /usr/lib/libreoffice/sdk/docs (which right now is a symlink.)
> > 
> > The symlink is because upstreams make install (un)helpfully installs them
> > in /usr/share/doc/libreoffice (!) - it's docs after all - and we ourselves move
> > it just to a different package. And create the /usr/lib/libreoffice/sdk/docs
> > link.
> [...]
> > theroretically it can be moved. /usr/lib/libreoffice/sdk/docs would result in
> > a new symlink_to_dir conversion, though, too
> > 
> > > Can you give me some hints how to speed up building libreoffice
> > > packages, since all I'm interested in testing maintainer script changes ...
> 
> I read that as you wanted to try it? Have results already? (There are two
> uploads coming up soonish).

ping?

Or are you *not* going to work on this? (Which is what I understood from
your last mail.)

Regards
 
Rene