Thanks Aaron, I did as advised and everything seems to be working properly. I now have 2 packages, with proper contents (well, I still need to compress examples).
Will come back when everything looks fine to me. Thomas >> I: toulbar2: arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share 4967kB 67% >> Is it tolerable? > Yes, but it would certainly be better to split out a -doc package. > >> Is it as simple as editing debian/control to describe two deb files and >> have a new debian/install file for the doc package? (I guess not :-/) > It's pretty straightforward, but not quite that simple. For one thing, > you'll want to rename all the files in debian/ specifically pertaining > to the main package to start with "toulbar2." for clarity. Also, please > note that destinations in .install files should always be directory > names, and that dh_installdocs will take care of doc-base files for you > if you name them according to the directions in its man page. > > If you have any heavyweight build dependencies that are necessary only > when building the main binary package, or only when building > documentation, it's best practice to split them out into > Build-Depends-Arch or Build-Depends-Indep, respectively. > > Finally, I'd recommend running debc (from the devscripts package) to get > an overview of each package's contents and metadata while you're working > on this setup. >
