Re: sysinfo upstream tarball problems

[Adriaan Peeters <apeeters@lashout.net>]

On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 10:38 +0200, Simon Richter wrote:

> > Furthermore I had to rerun automake because the original Makefile
> > installed extra doc files under /usr/doc/sysinfo. Is this the correct
> > solution or should I remove the files after running upstream make?
> 
> Both solutions are correct, modifying the Makefile is easier to 
> understand for someone else looking at the package and will also show a 
> conflict if upstream fixes it so you know when to remove the workaround. 
> So IMO that one is preferable.

Upstream Makefile.am contains:

sysinfodocdir = ${prefix}/doc/sysinfo
sysinfodoc_DATA = \
       README\
       COPYING\
       AUTHORS\
       ChangeLog\
       INSTALL\
       NEWS

 EXTRA_DIST = \
               $(sysinfodoc_DATA)\

How should I advise upstream to fix this (and remove the files
from /usr/doc/sysinfo)?

Adriaan