Package: debhelper
Version: 9.20151225
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi niels,
could you apply the following patch about allowing to run maintscript-helper
dir2symlink
Will save me some time on imagemagick
>From 87feddf6cb42fbd94e5507dfd8a1c37efb1bf221 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bastien=20ROUCARI=C3=88S?= <roucaries.bast...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 21:50:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Allow to run maintscript helper automatically
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Signed-off-by: Bastien ROUCARIÈS <roucaries.bast...@gmail.com>
---
dh_installdocs | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/dh_installdocs b/dh_installdocs
index da7b517..8e9cf2c 100755
--- a/dh_installdocs
+++ b/dh_installdocs
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ sub ensure_docdir {
init(options => {
"link-doc=s" => \$dh{LINK_DOC},
+ "previous-version=s" => \$dh{PREVIOUS_VERSION},
});
my $called_getpackages = 0;
@@ -173,6 +174,7 @@ foreach my $package (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
my $tmp=tmpdir($package);
my $file=pkgfile($package,"docs");
my $link_doc=($dh{LINK_DOC} && $dh{LINK_DOC} ne $package);
+ my $previous_version=$dh{PREVIOUS_VERSION};
if ($link_doc) {
getpackages('both') unless $called_getpackages++;
@@ -197,6 +199,13 @@ foreach my $package (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
# directory a symlink, then you have to depend on
# the target.
addsubstvar($package, 'misc:Depends', "$dh{LINK_DOC} (= \${binary:Version})");
+ # add maintscript helper
+ if ($previous_version) {
+ foreach my $script (qw{postinst preinst prerm postrm}) {
+ autoscript($package, $script, "maintscript-helper",
+ "s!#PARAMS#!dir_to_symlink /usr/share/doc/$package $link_doc $previous_version!g");
+ }
+ }
}
}
else {
--
2.7.0.rc3
