Hi again, On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 10:42:11PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > I wondered about this. I was unsure if /usr/share/doc/ is a good place for > > non-Debian systems, so I did not change the upstream default. But for > > Debian it is indeed the natural place for me to look. It seems there are a > > few options: > > 1. Change upstream to install to /usr/share/doc/ everywhere > > 2. Edit meson.build to put the examples in /usr/share/doc/ > > 3. #2 + make symlink to /usr/share/<package>/examples > > 4. Make a symlink from /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples to > > /usr/share/<package>/examples > > I'm not sure #1 works everywhere. #2 has the problem that the path to the > > examples would be distribution-dependent. #3 and #4 both seem OK though. > > I admit I have no real preference. I can not see any problem in #1 in > general but I'll leave the freedom of decision to you.
That's now the last open question. > > how to do it. Do we do this with a quilt patch? Because that would be a > > very large patch, and I didn't like the idea of removing the local boost via > > a patch that was the same size as boost :-P But it is not really > > important. Also, if we strip them out, do they still need to be in the > > copyright file? That would shrink the copyright file nicely. > > I'll take this as agreement that I'll do what I suggested as an example > and will confirm here once this is done (probably tomorrow). Done now. > > In addition, anything from the autotools build system can also be removed. > > This includes: > > m4/ > > configure.ac > > bootstrap.sh > > scripts/git_version.sh > > $(find . -name Makefile.am) > > I'll do this as well. Besides these I removed src/dlfcn-win32 Please check and confirm that you are OK with this solution. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de