Re: In-Program documentation
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:37:21PM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'am currently in progress of packaging password-gorilla, which is a
> tcl/tk application. Well everything is fine so far, except that the
> application contains menu items LICENSE and HELP which rely on files in
> the source distribution, which I currently install with dh_installdocs.
> So basically I need to make these files available to the tcl/tk scripts.
> But how should I do this properly?
>
> 1) Variant 1:
> I could install the files to /usr/share/doc, but not with dh_installdocs
> so that they don't get compressed and then link them to the target
> directory (/usr/share/password-gorilla).
>
> 2) Variant 2:
> Install them to /usr/share/doc AND to the target directory.
>
> 3) Variant 3:
> Install them only to the target directory.
>
> It seems to me as if variant 1 would be the only that makes sense. But
> is this okay? Is there another way to do it? What would you recommend?
It's a little known requirement that packages continue to work after
/u/s/doc is removed. So it's not allowed to install required files
there. You could do (2) or (3) with links *from* u/s/d though.
Justin
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