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Re: spurious INSTALL file in docs



On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 11:24:58PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> I'm trying to tidy up my package gworldclock.
> There's an INSTALL file in the package root directory (from the upstream
> edition), but it's not referred to in the build process.  It's just a
> standard informative file for autoconf.
> 
> Now debian/rules simply handles docs by invoking dh_installdocs.
> However, on installing the package, for some reason I find that INSTALL.gz
> gets itself installed into /usr/share/doc/gworldclock.
> 
> Can anyone hazard a guess why?  It really shouldn't be there, and I can't see
> how it got there either.

look in the /debian/docs file,
or there could be package specific ones, foopackage.docs, etc.

-- 
    ** Brian T. Russo <brusso@phys.hawaii.edu> **
   wolfie <wolfie@debian.org> || <wolfie@lpsg.org>
<Overfiend> Shit, there I go again, cleaning up my image
just to win a lousy election.



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