Package: debhelper Version: 7.2.8 Severity: wishlist -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
I recently stumbled over the following situation: From a source package 3 binary packages are created all containing documentation but in different formats. A user requested to merge the doc-base-files as described in the doc-base manual section 2.5.3 [1]. Now I thought, that I can simply set the same Document ID in the debian/*.doc-base files of the packages. But this lead to a failing installation, because all 3 packages contained the file /usr/share/doc-base/$id because the filename was created from the Document ID, which was unique in all debian/*.doc-base files. I didn't find a way to handle this situation with debhelper gracefully so I now use a workaround by running sed on the files in debian/*/usr/share/doc-base/. But I wonder if this situation can be handled by debhelper. Maybe a switch to tell: Create the filename from the package name or the filename in debian/ instead to use the Document ID ... could help here. What is your opinion about this issue? Regards, Daniel - -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (850, 'unstable'), (700, 'testing'), (550, 'stable'), (110, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.19.1-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii dpkg-dev 1.14.26 Debian package development tools ii file 5.00-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii html2text 1.3.2a-13 advanced HTML to text converter ii man-db 2.5.5-1 on-line manual pager ii perl 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii po-debconf 1.0.16 tool for managing templates file t debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: ii dh-make 0.48 tool that converts source archives - -- no debconf information -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkn1gy8ACgkQm0bx+wiPa4ylaQCeLbTEGe5bdH27jLrsYOtFaxRZ 58MAoIBRMrUMvtibOudreBpQdpdD2cey =Rhf4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
