Clarify that section 12.3 does not mean that you can ignore section

Author: srivasta
Date: 2004/10/17 23:32:56
Clarify that section 12.3 does not mean that you can ignore section
12.7 (or, really, any other section) of the policy.

git-archimport-id: srivasta@debian.org--etch/debian-policy--devel--3.0--patch-274

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 4c2b9e1ffbddf60d7fca45939a505481d80e0180..dd8275d532a7a86a10faf16718b7b80eaa7ac5c6 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -8336,7 +8336,18 @@ install-info --quiet --remove /usr/share/info/foobar.info
          <file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var></file> may be a symbolic
          link to another directory in <file>/usr/share/doc</file> only if
          the two packages both come from the same source and the
-         first package Depends on the second.
+         first package Depends on the second.<footnote>
+            <p>
+              Please note that this does not override the section on
+              changelog files below, so the file 
+              <file>/usr/share/<var>package</var>/changelog.Debian.gz</file>
+              must refer to the changelog for the current version of
+              <var>package</var> in question. In practice, this means
+              that the sources of the target and the destnation of the
+              symlink must be the same (same source package and
+              version). 
+            </p>
+          </footnote>
        </p>
 
        <p>