Control: tags -1 wontfix On Fri, 15 May 2020 10:21:17 +0200 Matthijs Kooijman <matth...@stdin.nl> wrote: > Hey Niels, > > > As far as I can tell, the underlying desire is to do some form of > > deduplication. > Yes, indeed. > > > If so, then I think this is similar to #888397 with an expanded scope > > and a proposal for doing this via dh_link (rather than dh_installdocs > > or a new helper). > > I guess my proposal is actually more narrow and specific. That other > report asks about more generic deduplication (run on the entire package, > or maybe a subset of files) that automatically finds duplicate files. I > guess that could be useful, but is also quickly a lot more complicated > (more work to find duplicates, which is the canonical one, any > exceptions). I'm also less inclined to completely automate this, I'd > rather make some more explicit choices (though something like "link files > in *this* directory to *that* directory if you find duplicates" could be > a nice compromise between automatic and manual work, maybe). > > Regardless, my suggestion would allow manual and explicit deduplication > to become a bit easier, at the expense of having to manually track the > list of duplicate files on upstream changes (but with my suggestions, > detecting files that are no longer duplicated is automatic, and lintian > can I think already detect *new* duplicate files, so together that would > allow adequately fixing all duplicates). > > I think that both issues are thus sufficiently separate (in how they > work and would be implemented) and can be valuable to eventually > implement side-by-side, so I would suggest keeping both issues open for > now. > > Gr. > > Matthijs
Thanks for the suggestion. I have decided to tag this wontfix. If there is interest in this feature, please consider prototyping it outside of debhelper (e.g. via a dh sequence add-on). Should it become successful, I will reconsider the wontfix tag. Thanks ~Niels
