Re: <pkg>-byte
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 01:09:18PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
>
>
> >> 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 ?
>
> Perhaps.
>
> Maybe we could try to wait for everyone to give one's opinion
> about this ?
Yes, altough i think everyone will agree.
(Especially once i have written it in the ocaml_packaging_policy :)))
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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