Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] is the debian/dirs file needed
Bobby de Vos <bobby_devos@sil.org> writes:
> Greetings,
>
> In the Debian New Maintainers' Guide at
>
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#dirs
>
> says "Files listed in an |install| file don't need their directories
> created first." Yet many font packages have a debian/dirs file, is that
> still needed even if the debian/install file creates the needed directories?
Directories will be created for the file entries in debian/install and
does not require debian/dirs. debian/dirs in the packages you referred
might be for some other case like supporting entries in debian/links
file (just as an example).
Cheers,
Vasudev
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