Re: debstd woes

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>debhelper isn't compliant with the latest policy (Change with example
>path).

I think you're misreading the upgrading-checklist (well, it could
probably be clearer there anyway). debhelper is still correct to install
examples in general into /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples. It's only
examples and templates which are used directly by the package, such as
example configuration files that are copied to /etc by its maintainer
scripts, that need to be moved to /usr/share/<package> or
/usr/lib/<package>.

The rationale for this is that dpkg might be extended in the future to
be able to exclude certain directory trees, and /usr/share/doc is one of
the main directories people might want to exclude. See bug #87711.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]