Re: <pkg>-byte
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 01:17:12PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> 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.
Err, what trick and what is the problem in the first place. The above
mentioned debian/rules yielded a debian package which i installed over
my spamoracle package without problem.
> > 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?
Fine with me.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
Reply to: