John V. Belmonte wrote: > Package: debhelper > Version: 5.0.10 > Severity: normal > > dh_installdocs is running the exclude check (excludefile function) on > potential .doc-base files themselves. Even though .doc-base files are > installed literally, a naive debhelper user will consider it to be more of > a control file, such as a .docs file. I spent several hours trying to > find out why my .doc-base file was being ignored while my .docs wasn't. > Does it really make sense to run the exclude on one and not the other?
I wondered the same thing when bug #342033 requested that -X should apply to doc-base file installation, but concluded is that there is a significant difference between the two sorts of files and doc-base files are marginally more in the group that should be excluded. -- see shy jo
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