Re: <pkg>-byte

[Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 12:36:28PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 10:56:59AM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> >> 
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >>   What should we do with /usr/share/doc directories when
> >>   we ship <pkg>-byte?
> >
> > Well, upto now, i didn't do anything, and the doc directory was
> > spamoracle-byte.
> >
> > It is not a good solution though. And since both packages conflicts, it
> > makes sense to move the 
> >
> >>   I'd propose that:
> >>   /usr/share/doc/pkg be the real directory and
> >>   /usr/share/doc/pkg-byte be a symlink to it.  
> >
> > Mmm, that or the other way around.
> >
> > I think it is less work to do it the other way around, you have to mess
> > more in the debian/rules file to do it like you propose. In the other
> > way around you just need to add a symlink, which can easily be done.
> 
> What I had in mind is if the user apt-get install ocaml-zoggy and
> ocaml-zoggy-byte is installed because no native version is available,
> he may want to search for documentation in /usr/share/doc/ocaml-zoggy
> rather than /usr/share/doc/ocaml-zoggy-byte.
> 
> This was just a thought, before I do anything because dpkg does not
> want to replace dirs by symlinks and symlinks by dirs (for very good
> reasons), so I must do the right thing at the beginning.

Mmm, i didn't know about that. It makes sense to do it your way then.

Now, what would be the cost in debian/rules ? You would just need to cp
the directory and create the symlink just after doing dh_installdocs,
right, not that expensive. Best would be if dh_installdocs could do this
all by itself, with providing a simple option like :

dh_installdocs -Lzoggy -pzoggy-byte

or

dh_installdocs -Lzoggy -i

What do you think about it ?

We could fill a (wishlist) bug against debhelper to have this
implemented ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther