Re: What are these .dhelp files?
Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org> writes:
> What are these .dhelp files that are in a number of the /usr/doc/*
> and /usr/share/doc/ directories?
Generated automatically by 'install-docs' from doc-base, or else
included in the pacakge itself.
> However, /usr/doc/doc-base seems to be mostly empty, it just has two
> .dhelp files. dpkg doesn't know about them, so presumably they got left
> behind at some stage which is why the directory wasn't removed?
> $ locate /.dhelp | wc -l
> 28
>
> $ dpkg -S .dhelp | wc -l
> 7
>
> So there are 21 .dhelp files on my system that shouldn't be, right?
Um, define "should". :)
> Won't this cause a pain in the butt when trying to get rid of /usr/doc ?
No, because when you remove a package, the maintainer script should
run 'install-docs -r <docic>' which will remove the .dhelp files.
I just tested it and it works fine....
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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