Re: debhelper and multiple README files
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Joey Hess wrote:
> Jochen Voss wrote:
> > I have a question about debhelper:
> > I try to pack a package which has multiple README files,
> > scattered over several sub-directories.
> > README
> > foo/README
> > bar/README
> > My plan is to install them in the doc directory as
> > doc/README
> > doc/README.foo
> > doc/README.bar
> > Is there a way to do this with debhelper (dh_installdocs)?
> > Or should I copy them manually.
>
> Unfortunatly dh_installdocs doesn't handle this well.
Here is my suggestion (as I am currently in the NM-queue any comments are
greatly appreciated):
In debian/rules create a temporary doc (it should not be in the source
already) and copy the files into that directory. Then you can install the
directory with debhelper like that:
dh_installdocs doc
The copying could be done quite easily with a little makefile magic:
files=foo/README bar/README
all: $(files)
%/README:
echo cp $@ doc/$(@F).$(@D)
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