Package: debhelper
Version: 13.9.1
Severity: wishlist
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Hi, would it be possible for dh_installdocs to support installation of files in
subdirectories of the documentation directory?
This can be necessary in cases where, for example, an HTML file references some
images in a relative path like docs/images/.
Take this package.docs file for example:
README.html
docs/images/*.png
docs/images/*.svg
The installed README.html file will point to nonexistent paths, as images will
get installed in /usr/share/doc/package/ instead of
/usr/share/doc/package/docs/images/.
What I suggest is extending the .docs format in a way similar to .install
files, but only allowing paths relative to the documentation directory. The
previous example would be converted to this:
README.html
docs/images/*.png docs/images/
docs/images/*.svg docs/images/
I'm currently working around this by installing the images in a .install file,
but those do not honour the nodoc build profile; I also dislike having to
separate the same logical concept in two different places.
Thanks for your work on debhelper!
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Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii autotools-dev 20220109.1
ii dh-autoreconf 20
ii dh-strip-nondeterminism 1.13.0-1
ii dpkg 1.21.9
ii dpkg-dev 1.21.9
ii dwz 0.14-1
ii file 1:5.41-4
ii libdebhelper-perl 13.9.1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.21.9
ii man-db 2.10.2-3
ii perl 5.34.0-5
ii po-debconf 1.0.21+nmu1
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