Re: modernising old packages
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:58:14AM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> Hi Drew!
>
> You wrote:
>
> > What is the appropriate way of bringing meschach into the 21st Century?
> > Are there any tools for handling this, or do the changes need to be made
> > manually?
>
> You'll have to do it manually. The file
> /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz contains all
> chanes between subsequent policy versions. Using this file, you can
> easily figure out what exacly you'll have to change.
>
I don't get it. I've got /usr/share/doc now set up, but I can't get the
link from /usr/doc to work properly now. I put the script from the policy
docs into postinst:
if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then
if [ -d /usr/doc -a ! -e /usr/doc/#PACKAGE# \
-a -d /usr/share/doc/#PACKAGE# ]; then
ln -sf ../share/doc/#PACKAGE# /usr/doc/#PACKAGE#
fi
fi
and I've got debian/rules to copy postinst into debian/tmp/DEBIAN/postinst,
and I can confirm in the prepared debs that postint is right there where
it's supposed to in the DEBIAN directory inside the deb file.
But when I run lintian on the changes file, it still whinges about no
symlink being setup for /usr/doc:
N: perl checks disabled temporarily
W: meschach: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link
W: meschach: prerm-does-not-remove-usr-doc-link
(likewise, as you can see, for removing the link, where I have
if [ \( "$1" = "upgrade" -o "$1" = "remove" \) \
-a -L /usr/doc/#PACKAGE# ]; then
rm -f /usr/doc/#PACKAGE#
fi
as suggested by the policy docs).
Am I using the above scripts wrongly? Was I supposed to substitute the name
of the package instead of #PACKAGE# myself? Am I supposed to do something
to get the #DEBHELPER# line in postinst & prerm to work properly? Is
#DEBHELPER# supposed to be there at all? (I thought it was, so it's there).
Thanks for any clues.
Drew
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