Bugs item #2803995, was opened at 2009-06-10 10:20 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by zmoelnig You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=478070&aid=2803995...

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Status: Open

Resolution: None Priority: 1 Private: No Submitted By: IOhannes m zmlnig (zmoelnig) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: PdX and Debian filesystem policy

Initial Comment: PdX installs _all_ documentation into /usr/lib/pd/doc.

it does not install anything into /usr/share/doc/pd-extended, which is the natural place to look for help on a debian system. (as a matter of fact it is used so often, that it can be regarded as a "list of installed packages"; pd-extended does not show up here)

it would be nice if at least a note on where to find the "real" documentation would be placed into /usr/share/doc/pd-extended.

as stated in debian's policy http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile e"very package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright and distribution license in the file /usr/share/doc/package/copyright". PdX violates the debian policy in this regard.

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Comment By: IOhannes m zmlnig (zmoelnig)

Date: 2010-04-13 09:15

Message: this bug report is not about missing .pd files in /usr/share/doc/

it's about violating the debian policy by not installing _anything_ into /usr/share/doc/pd-extended, namely copyright files.

and i repeat that it would be nice (think of this as a feature request) to direct the user to the "interactive" help of Pd-patches.

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Comment By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave) Date: 2010-04-13 06:50

Message: .pd files are not static files like HTML, they are more like .pl or .py files. Therefore, it is perfectly appropriate for the help patches to go into /usr/lib/pd. It would not be appropriate to include them in /usr/share/doc/pd... since they are not really viewable using less, a text editor, or a web browser. I discussed this at length during the Debian Bug Squashing Party in NYC back at the end of January.

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Comment By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave) Date: 2009-06-10 17:52

Message: yes, the packages need a lot of work, and I am sure there are tons of policy violations, and I am a big beliver in Debian Policy. But there are only so many hours in the day.

Anyone should feel free to do this since I probably won't get to it for a while.

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