Re: How to handle a change in "Files-Excluded:" with gbp

[Thomas Schiex <thomas.schiex@inra.fr>]

Thanks Aaron,

I did as advised and everything seems to be working properly. I now have
2 packages, with proper contents (well, I still need to compress examples).

Will come back when everything looks fine to me.

Thomas
>> I: toulbar2: arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share 4967kB 67%
>> Is it tolerable?
> Yes, but it would certainly be better to split out a -doc package.
>
>> Is it as simple as editing debian/control to describe two deb files and
>> have a new debian/install file for the doc package? (I guess not :-/)
> It's pretty straightforward, but not quite that simple.  For one thing,
> you'll want to rename all the files in debian/ specifically pertaining
> to the main package to start with "toulbar2." for clarity.  Also, please
> note that destinations in .install files should always be directory
> names, and that dh_installdocs will take care of doc-base files for you
> if you name them according to the directions in its man page.
>
> If you have any heavyweight build dependencies that are necessary only
> when building the main binary package, or only when building
> documentation, it's best practice to split them out into
> Build-Depends-Arch or Build-Depends-Indep, respectively.
>
> Finally, I'd recommend running debc (from the devscripts package) to get
> an overview of each package's contents and metadata while you're working
> on this setup.
>