Proposal: remove man and info entries from dh config files

["Chuan-kai Lin" <cklin@google.com>]

While working my way through emdebian packages, I noticed that the
debhelper config files of many packages still contain references to
info files or man pages.  Here are some examples from my notes:

e2fsprogs: packages contain man pages and info files installed by .files files.
exoat: FTBFS due to expat.install referring to a man page removed in
the emdebian packaging.
file: packages contain man pages installed through .install files.
ncurses: packages contain man pages installed by .files files.
pam: FTBFS due to libpam-runtime.files referring to a man page removed
in the emdebian packaging.

There may be others that I haven't caught yet.  I propose that we
systematically remove all entries in /usr/share/doc, /usr/share/man,
and /usr/share/info from *.install, *.files, and *.links.  We can do
it to all existing packages in svn, and add this functionality to
em_make so that it is automatically applied to future packages.

Comments?

PS. I will be gone next week, and come back the week after.

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Chuan-kai Lin