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- To: Dominique Devriese <dominique.devriese@student.kuleuven.ac.be>
- Subject: Re: acinclude.m4.in patch for kde_htmldir default on Debian
- From: Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 07:52:35 +0200
- Message-id: <200305150752.36476.coolo@kde.org>
- In-reply-to: <16066.33861.977763.955164@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
- References: <16066.33861.977763.955164@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
On Wednesday 14 May 2003 20:00, you wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The Debian KDE packages have had to move the documentation from
> "$prefix/share/doc/HTML" to "$prefix/share/doc/kde/HTML" ( for any of
> the prefixes listed in KDEDIRS and other places ), in order to comply
> with the Debian policy that stuff that is in /usr/share/doc/HTML
> should be docs *about* HTML. The Debian also have a patch for the
> KStandardDirs class to make it no longer look in the old location, but
> only in the new one ( kdelibs/debian/patches/kdelibs.dirs.patch ).
>
> However, this breaks the installation of third party source packages'
> documentation on those systems, because they still install their docs
> in the old location, and kio_help never looks for them there.
>
> This patch is meant to solve that by setting the default kde_htmldir
> on Debian to share/doc/kde/HTML, at least if the Debian KDE packages
> are installed. In other cases, it defaults to the normal location.
>
> So, can you apply this patch to kde-common/acinclude.m4.in, please ?
I won't. You can set kde_htmldir before running configure and Debian
packages should suggest that to people compiling sources. I have however
a more general solution in my TODO folder, but that will take some time
to implement ;(
Greetings, Stephan
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