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Re: debhelper and multiple README files



On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Joey Hess wrote:

 Manfred Wassmann wrote:
> > Here is my suggestion (as I am currently in the NM-queue any comments are
> > greatly appreciated):
> > 
> > In debian/rules create a temporary doc (it should not be in the source
> > already) and copy the files into that directory. Then you can install the
> > directory with debhelper like that:
> > dh_installdocs doc
> > 
> > The copying could be done quite easily with a little makefile magic:
> > 
> > files=foo/README bar/README
> > 
> > all: $(files)
> > 
> > %/README:
> > 	echo cp $@ doc/$(@F).$(@D)
> 
> I don't see the point; why not just copy the files to
> debian/package/usr/share/doc instead?

Does dh_installdocs know about this? I couldn't find anything like that in
the docs.

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