Re: lintian - man pages
* Robert Bihlmeyer
| Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no> writes:
|
| > If the INSTALL file contains both building and installation
| > instructions, and how to set up the package, what is then the correct
| > way to handle that?
| >
| > Cut and paste the relevant portions into README.Debian or something?
|
| That's obviously the most correct solution; but you should do this
| only if you're comfortable with keeping this in sync with the
| actual INSTALL file.
This was one of my worries.
| Personally, I have no problems with /usr/share/doc/foo/INSTALL that
| contains set-up (or similar) information and some useless stuff. It
| only annoys me if an INSTALL file is wholly useless to users of binary
| packages -- e.g. GNU's standard INSTALL instructions.
Ack, true, I agree
Would this be too much magic to add to lintian -- check whether those
are the generic GNU installation instructions or something else?
--
Tollef Fog Heen
Axiom #1: You Can't Win
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