On 9 April 2021 at 22:33, Andreas Beckmann wrote: | On 09/04/2021 22.19, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > That is ... quite possible. It's actually the same with line above in | > debian/rules. The actual underlying problem, though, is that a lot of | > content that once appears to have in gretl-doc is now in gretl itself :-/ | | dh_installdocs changed behavior from compat level 11 onwards: | | from debhelper(7): | | - The dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples tools may | now install most of the documentation in a different path to comply with | the recommendation from Debian policy ยง12.3 (since version 3.9.7). | | Note that if a given source package only contains a | single binary package in debian/control or none of the packages are -doc | packages, then this change is not relevant for that source package and | you can skip to the next change. | | By default, these tools will now attempt to | determine a "main package for the documentation" (called a | doc-main-package from here on) for every -doc package. If they find | such a doc-main-package, they will now install the | documentation into the path | /usr/share/doc/doc-main-package in the given doc package. I.e. the path | can change but the documentation is still shipped in the -doc package. | | The --doc-main-package option can be used when the | auto-detection is insufficient or to reset the path to its previous | value if there is a reason to diverge from Debian policy recommendation. | | Some documentation will not be affected by this | change. These exceptions include the copyright file, changelog files, | README.Debian, etc. These files will still be installed in the path | /usr/share/doc/package.
Spot on. What is most expedient way to correct this? dh_movefiles? Dirk -- https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
