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has caused the Debian Bug report #448615,
regarding dh_installdocs : Please consider a separate handler for
debian/copyright for embedded use
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Package: debhelper
Version: 5.0.59
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/dh_installdocs
This is just an idea at this stage, but Emdebian currently removes all
/usr/share/doc/ contents in order to make suitably small packages for
embedded use. It would be beneficial if debhelper could help us by
separating the handling of debian/copyright from the other
documentation so that the Emdebian distribution could remain legal (by
distributing the copyright files) without being burdened by README,
TODO and other package docs that are simply unnecessary on an embedded
device. When storage space is such a problem, it would also be useful if
the new handler would support compressing debian/copyright when a build
option is specified - maybe ifneq
($(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE),$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) or a custom DEB_BUILD_OPTION
that Emdebian could use on top of nocheck, nodocs etc. (Seeking wider
adoption of nodocs and some kind of consistent meaning to nodocs is
another topic for discussion.)
Emdebian could then recommend wrapping dh_installdocs in the above test
with the new handler as an alternative or debhelper could do the same
internally.
Whether or not the package ChangeLog files and debian/changelog will be
distributed has not been decided yet. Copyright files are typically
small. Installing changelogs (even compressed) could end up with users
being prevented from installing necessary applications, just to provide
room for the changelog.gz files.
All ideas welcome.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20071027-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii coreutils 5.97-5.4 The GNU core utilities
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.7 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.21-3 Determines file type using "magic"
ii html2text 1.3.2a-3 An advanced HTML to text converter
ii perl 5.8.8-11.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii po-debconf 1.0.9 manage translated Debconf template
debhelper recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Emdebian has a different way of handling this now - the emdebian-grip
package and postbuild support. Closing.
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