Re: [dmidecode] Move man pages to /usr/share/man

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Jean Delvare]
> By default, dmidecode does install them under /usr/man. I plan to change
> this to /usr/share/man to comply with the FHS. Any objection?

Sounds good to me.  I've been doing this for the debian package since
day one. :)

> While I'm there, I plan to add the README, CHANGELOG and AUTHORS files
> to the list of installed files. These would be installed by default in
> /usr/share/doc/dmidecode-$VERSION. I still need to figure out a portable
> way to extract $VERSION from version.h.
> 
> There doesn't seem to be any mention of a directory for documentation
> files in the FHS, but /usr/share/doc seems to be the common practice
> among distributions. Comments anyone?

I would prefer /usr/share/doc/dmidecode/ instead of
dmidecode-$VERSION/, as this is the common practice for Debian.  If
you use dmidecode-$VERSION/, I will have to move it when I make the
Debian package.