Package: debhelper Version: 5.0.59 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/dh_installdocs
This is just an idea at this stage, but Emdebian currently removes all /usr/share/doc/ contents in order to make suitably small packages for embedded use. It would be beneficial if debhelper could help us by separating the handling of debian/copyright from the other documentation so that the Emdebian distribution could remain legal (by distributing the copyright files) without being burdened by README, TODO and other package docs that are simply unnecessary on an embedded device. When storage space is such a problem, it would also be useful if the new handler would support compressing debian/copyright when a build option is specified - maybe ifneq ($(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE),$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) or a custom DEB_BUILD_OPTION that Emdebian could use on top of nocheck, nodocs etc. (Seeking wider adoption of nodocs and some kind of consistent meaning to nodocs is another topic for discussion.) Emdebian could then recommend wrapping dh_installdocs in the above test with the new handler as an alternative or debhelper could do the same internally. Whether or not the package ChangeLog files and debian/changelog will be distributed has not been decided yet. Copyright files are typically small. Installing changelogs (even compressed) could end up with users being prevented from installing necessary applications, just to provide room for the changelog.gz files. All ideas welcome. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20071027-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii coreutils 5.97-5.4 The GNU core utilities ii dpkg-dev 1.14.7 package building tools for Debian ii file 4.21-3 Determines file type using "magic" ii html2text 1.3.2a-3 An advanced HTML to text converter ii perl 5.8.8-11.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii po-debconf 1.0.9 manage translated Debconf template debhelper recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
