Hello, On Fri 13 Dec 2024 at 11:36pm -08, Xiyue Deng wrote:
> I also tried d/install, but it cannot rename files.
You could try dh_exec.
> In fact, all Debian control files supporting the "source destination"
> format seem to treat destination as a directory only and are created
> on demand, which I think makes sense. I think manually using
> install/rename the file in override_dh_installdocs will interfere with
> the automatic handling of dh_* tools anyway and I'd like to avoid
> that.
I don't think it will interfere with anything. Just
override_dh_installdocs:
install ...
dh_installdocs
should be fine.
> So instead, I opt for one of the previous ideas: install changelog as a
> symlink of CHANGELOG.org in d/links, which should take care of all the
> unnecessary renaming dance. However, it triggers another lintian
> warning "debian-changelog-file-is-a-symlink", which it should not as the
> document says if the file is under /usr/share/doc/*pkg* it should be
> fine, which CHANGELOG.org is. Anyway, I added a lintian override for
> that for now and will file a follow up bug to track this false positive
> case on lintian.
I think Lintian is correct, tbh.
> I took a look at the machine-readable copyright format document[1],
> specifically the example given in the copyright section 6.8, and I
> think it meant that if a group of file shares any copyright holder(s),
> those files can be grouped in the same stanza - in the example, Angela
> Watts appeared in both source files so those files can share the same
> stanza. I think in the case for dap-mode, each file has only a single
> copyright holder so may be this simplification doesn't apply, so I opt
> to provide separate stanza for all files. I surely hope I can list
> everyone under "Files: *" so that things can be simpler, but keeping it
> as-is just in case.
They can definitely be grouped in the way I suggested.
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Sean Whitton
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