Hi,
Nelson A. de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/4/07, Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's a little known requirement that packages continue to work after
/u/s/doc is removed. So it's not allowed to install required files
there. You
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 13:15:14 + (UTC)
Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Packages must not require the existence of any files in
/usr/share/doc/ in order to function [78]. Any files that are
referenced by programs but are also useful as stand alone
documentation should be installed
Hi!
On 9/5/07, Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Note [78]: The system administrator should be able to delete files in
/usr/share/doc/ without causing any programs to break.
Is anywhere said when a program break? Are missing help files (available
via menu entry) a breakage?
If the
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 11:35:34 -0300
Nelson A. de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately it's too much subjective to define what is a break. A
user may think that a missing help file is a break, while another one
just don't care about this missing file.
A user who deletes /usr/share/doc
Hi there,
I'am currently in progress of packaging password-gorilla, which is a
tcl/tk application. Well everything is fine so far, except that the
application contains menu items LICENSE and HELP which rely on files in
the source distribution, which I currently install with dh_installdocs.
So
On Die, 04 Sep 2007, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
1) Variant 1:
I could install the files to /usr/share/doc, but not with dh_installdocs
so that they don't get compressed and then link them to the target
directory (/usr/share/password-gorilla).
dh_installdocs does not compress (AFAIR), it is
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Norbert Preining wrote:
dh_installdocs does not compress (AFAIR), it is dh_compress. And you can
give dh_compress the -X option to exclude those file from being
compressed.
Yeah. When i acutally tested what i meant it revealed that dh_compress
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On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:37:21PM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
Hi there,
I'am currently in progress of packaging password-gorilla, which is a
tcl/tk application. Well everything is fine so far, except that the
application contains menu items LICENSE and HELP which rely on files in
the
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Justin Pryzby wrote:
It's a little known requirement that packages continue to work after
/u/s/doc is removed. So it's not allowed to install required files
there. You could do (2) or (3) with links *from* u/s/d though.
Well, the program will
Am Dienstag, den 04.09.2007, 22:37 +0200 schrieb Patrick Schoenfeld:
I'am currently in progress of packaging password-gorilla, which is a
tcl/tk application. Well everything is fine so far, except that the
application contains menu items LICENSE and HELP which rely on files in
the source
Hi Justin,
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's a little known requirement that packages continue to work after
/u/s/doc is removed. So it's not allowed to install required files
there. You could do (2) or (3) with links *from* u/s/d though.
Where's this written? In the policy?
Bye,
Hi!
On 9/4/07, Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's a little known requirement that packages continue to work after
/u/s/doc is removed. So it's not allowed to install required files
there. You could do (2) or (3) with links *from* u/s/d
Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (04/09/2007):
Where's this written? In the policy?
Policy 12.3.
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On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 11:49:33PM +, Jörg Sommer wrote:
Hi Justin,
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's a little known requirement that packages continue to work after
/u/s/doc is removed. So it's not allowed to install required files
there. You could do (2) or (3) with
On Die, 04 Sep 2007, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
Variant 4, probably to be preferred:
Install it into /usr/share/password-gorilla/ and add only a link from
/usr/share/doc/password-gorilla, so that they won't be compressed.
So variant 4 is just variant 1, except that i don't use another
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