Packaging examples

[Kip Warner <kip@thevertigo.com>]

Hey list,

I would like to ship some example files with my package. My Makefile.am
has something to the effect of...

    examplesdir=$(docdir)/examples
    examples_DATA = \
        $(srcdir)/Data/Examples/some_example_file \
        ...

    EXTRA_DIST = \
        $(examples_DATA) \
        ...

This installs the example files as expected in
/usr/share/doc/foo/examples/, but I was still left to wonder what the
best practise was given that dh_installexamples(1) exists and seems to
want to do the same based on the contents of debian/foo.examples?

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Kip Warner | Senior Software Engineer
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