Re: debhelper and multiple README files

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Manfred Wassmann wrote:
> Well, I'm not that familiar with debhelper yet. I mistakenly assumed that
> dh_installdocs would set the permissions of the installed files. 
> If it just copies that's nuts.
> BTW I think it would be more suggestive if a command that installs doc
> files would set the permissions right away. Is there any good reason that
> it doesn't?

Well, um, partly so that if dh_installdocs does not do what you want,
you can work around it and still be assured of proper permissions once
you run dh_fixperms?

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