Bug#631881: libvte-doc: symlink mess

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 27 juin 2011 à 18:23 -0700, Ian Zimmerman a écrit : 
> /usr/share/doc/libvte-doc/html is a dangling symlink to
> .../../gtk-doc/html/vte.

Thanks for noticing this. It will be fixed in the next upload.

> In that directory (i.e. /usr/share/gtk-doc/html), there is no vte
> subdirectory but there are vte-0.0 and vte-0.28 subdirs which seem to
> have identical contents.  Wth?

One is for gtk2 and the other for gtk3.

> Why do we need this horrible gtk-doc tree anyway?  Why can't these
> packages really have their documentation under /usr/share/doc like
> other packages??

Because the documentation is meant to be browsed in devhelp, which is
far superior than just putting random files in /usr/share/doc.

Cheers,
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