Re: <pkg>-byte

[jmarant@nerim.net (Jérôme Marant)]

Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:


>> > >>   I'd propose that:
>> > >>   /usr/share/doc/pkg be the real directory and
>> > >>   /usr/share/doc/pkg-byte be a symlink to it.  
>
> $ ls -l /usr/share/doc/spamoracle*
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           10 2002-12-22 12:59 /usr/share/doc/spamoracle-byte -> spamoracle
>
> /usr/share/doc/spamoracle:
> total 16
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          374 2002-12-22 12:57 changelog.Debian.gz
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          489 2002-10-20 11:38 copyright
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5163 2002-08-26 14:33 README.gz
>
> And this did the trick :
>
> $ cat debian/rules
> ...
>         dh_installdocs -i
> 	mv $(CURDIR)/debian/spamoracle-byte/usr/share/doc/spamoracle-byte \
> 		$(CURDIR)/debian/spamoracle-byte/usr/share/doc/spamoracle
> 	ln -sf spamoracle $(CURDIR)/debian/spamoracle-byte/usr/share/doc/spamoracle-byte
> 	dh_installexamples -i
> ...
>
> In truth, you should maybe do this later on, since at least
> dh_installexamples will also put things in the /usr/share/doc directory.

Yes.

However, you cannot change spamoracle-byte that way because dpkg won't let you
replace /usr/share/doc/spamoracle-byte by a symlink. You need
trick (I know of) to make it possible.

> Sounds good, no ? I will add it to the next ocaml_packaging_policy,
> unless someone objects.
>
> Could you fill a bug against debhelper for an option to do this directly
> from dh_installdocs ?

Could we wait first for everyone to agree about this?

Cheers,

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Jérôme Marant

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