Re: Packaging examples

2018-02-25 Thread Kip Warner
On Mon, 2018-02-26 at 00:04 +, Craig Small wrote: > Not all upstream Makefiles are that good. My preference would be if > their Makefile is doing the right thing then use that and have no > debian/foo.examples file. Ah, that makes sense. Since the debianization is suppose to happen without

Re: Packaging examples

2018-02-25 Thread Craig Small
Hi Kip, On Mon, 26 Feb. 2018, 09:34 Kip Warner, wrote: > This installs the example files as expected in > /usr/share/doc/foo/examples/, but I was still left to wonder what the > best practise was given that dh_installexamples(1) exists and seems to > want to do the same

Packaging examples

2018-02-25 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, I would like to ship some example files with my package. My Makefile.am has something to the effect of... examplesdir=$(docdir)/examples examples_DATA = \ $(srcdir)/Data/Examples/some_example_file \ ... EXTRA_DIST = \ $(examples_DATA) \ ...