* Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes

[debian/debian-policy.git] / policy.sgml

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index ff605138510efb60a3f8f1eb997699c333cfaa96..e309097f7f07b22f274f311ff7e38314a4708548 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -4228,7 +4228,11 @@ libbar 1 bar1 (>= 1.0-1)
            referred here can be found in the <tt>debian-policy</tt>
            package or on
            <url id="http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/"
-             name="FHS (Debian copy)"> alongside this manual. The
+             name="FHS (Debian copy)"> alongside this manual (or, if
+           you have the <package>debian-policy</package> installed,
+           you can try <url
+             id="file:///usr/share/doc/debian-policy/fhs/" name="FHS
+             (local copy)">). The
            latest version, which may be a more recent version, may
            be found on
            <url id="http://www.pathname.com/fhs/" name="FHS (upstream)">.
@@ -5327,7 +5331,7 @@ Reloading <var>description</var> configuration...done.
 
        <p>
          <list>
-           <item><p><tt>&lt;--</tt> generates <tt>KB_Backspace</tt>
+           <item><p><tt>&lt;--</tt> generates <tt>KB_BackSpace</tt>
                in X.</p></item>
 
            <item><p><tt>Delete</tt> generates <tt>KB_Delete</tt> in
@@ -5549,7 +5553,7 @@ install -s # (or use strip on the files in debian/tmp)
              <p>
                This string means that the debugging symbols should
                not be stripped from the binary during installation,
-               so that debugging information may be included in the           +               package.
+               so that debugging information may be included in the package.
              </p>
            </item>
          </taglist>
@@ -5880,8 +5884,9 @@ strip --strip-unneeded <var>your-lib</var>
        <p>
          You may wish to restrict your script to POSIX features when
          possible so that it may use <file>/bin/sh</file> as its
-         interpreter. If your script works with <prgn>ash</prgn>,
-         it's probably POSIX compliant, but if you are in doubt, use
+         interpreter. If your script works with <prgn>dash</prgn>
+         (originally called <prgn>ash</prgn>), it's probably POSIX
+         compliant, but if you are in doubt, use
          <file>/bin/bash</file>.
        </p>
 
@@ -7758,6 +7763,14 @@ install-info --quiet --remove /usr/share/info/foobar.info
          </footnote>
        </p>
 
+       <p>
+         <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. 
+       </p>
+
+
        <p>
          All of these files should be installed compressed using
          <tt>gzip -9</tt>, as they will become large with time even