Re: tasks overview wishlist: Canonical citing reference
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 01:16:37PM +0200, Manuel Prinz wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 11.10.2008, 22:28 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy:
> > It seems that if we go the Debhelper way, we could make dh_references
> > not install anything if DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS contains a 'nodoc' flag.
>
> Yes, this would be great for Emdebian and alike.
>
> > When a large majority of the scientific packages would contain
> > debian/references, we could enhance dh_references to maintain central
> > bibliographies in mainstream formats using DPKG triggers.
>
> This is what I had in mind. The thing I worry about is the "s" in
> "formats". I doubt it is necessary to have more than one format. On the
> other hand, we could make the user choose which formats (s)he wants via
> debconf or something like that.
Personally, I think this (both a dh_* script and debconf) is
overengineering.
If we want to have files in /usr/share/doc/<package>, why can't we just
use dh_installdocs for now?
Michael
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