On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 01:09:18PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> What I had in mind is if the user apt-get install ocaml-zoggy and > >> ocaml-zoggy-byte is installed because no native version is available, > >> he may want to search for documentation in /usr/share/doc/ocaml-zoggy > >> rather than /usr/share/doc/ocaml-zoggy-byte. > >> > >> This was just a thought, before I do anything because dpkg does not > >> want to replace dirs by symlinks and symlinks by dirs (for very good > >> reasons), so I must do the right thing at the beginning. > > > > Mmm, i didn't know about that. It makes sense to do it your way then. > > > > Now, what would be the cost in debian/rules ? You would just need to cp > > the directory and create the symlink just after doing dh_installdocs, > > right, not that expensive. Best would be if dh_installdocs could do this > > all by itself, with providing a simple option like : > > > > dh_installdocs -Lzoggy -pzoggy-byte > > > > or > > > > dh_installdocs -Lzoggy -i > > > > What do you think about it ? > > > > We could fill a (wishlist) bug against debhelper to have this > > implemented ? > > Perhaps. > > Maybe we could try to wait for everyone to give one's opinion > about this ?
Yes, altough i think everyone will agree. (Especially once i have written it in the ocaml_packaging_policy :))) Friendly, Sven Luther
