[pkg-horde] Bug#357377: Package lacks CREDITS file

Lionel Elie Mamane lionel at mamane.lu
Fri Mar 17 06:13:27 UTC 2006


On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 04:12:15AM +0100, Gregory Colpart wrote:

>> CREDITS file is referenced from
>> /usr/share/horde3/services/help/index.php (should be visible via
>> Help -> "About ...").

> This minor bug concerns all horde packages.

> A fix could be to have an "gunzip CREDITS file" in
> /usr/share/doc/xxx/

We will also probably need a lintian override to stop it complaining
it is not gzipped.

>  and add a symlink :

> /usr/share/horde3/xxx/docs/CREDITS -> /usr/share/doc/xxx/CREDITS

> or

> /usr/share/horde3/xxx/docs -> /usr/share/doc/xxx/

The second solution looks slightly better to me: If any future "doc/"
files get referenced from the program in future, the symlink is
shared.

> (Be careful to have SymLinksIfOwnerMatch or FollowSymlinks option
> in Apache conf)

Document that in README.Debian.

> I will waiting other pkg-horde-hackers opinion to apply the same
> fix to all horde packages.

It looks reasonable to me. Anybody having another opinion?

-- 
Lionel




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