Hello,
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
Does cdbs do something wrong or not? I say, yes it's doing things
wrong: cdbs should install files listed in <package>.docs in
preference over the files specified on command line to
dh_installdocs.
Again, this is not the doing of cdbs. cdbs calls debhelper. Debhelper
decides what to install. If you think that files should take
precedence over the command line, you'll have to talk to the debhelper
maintainer. It's completely pointless to complain here because we are
not controlling that.
Actually I don't care whether dh_installdocs takes files in .docs files
precedence over files specified on command line (at least for this bug
report) or not. What I do care here is what cdbs is doing for packaging
the documentation.
I as packager selected a specific README to be packaged in
<specialpackage> and specified it in the corresponding file
<specialpackage>.docs, since I were expecting cdbs is using
dh_installdocs (which it does). But my decision which README is to be
installed in <specialpackage> has been overruled without any comment by
cdbs (why ever). I had to read the code of debhelper.mk in order to
understand why the hell the *specific* README from <specialpackage>.docs
has been ignored by cdbs. That's odd, isn't it?
The difference compared to dh_installdocs is, that I didn't configure
cdbs (on my own) to install any docs. Neither in config files like the
.docs files nor on command line (okay, pointless in debian/rules). I
just created the <package>.docs files because I trusted cdbs to make
proper use of dh_installdocs. Thus I did expect it to do the same like I
did without cdbs calling dh_installdocs in debian/rules on my own.
Or shouldn't I have expected this? If I expected something wrong from
cdbs - then maybe I'll think it all over. But then, where is this
difference between dh_installdocs called from within cdbs compared to
dh_installdocs called from pure debian/rules documented? Did I miss
something?
Not having talked about the reasons for this bug: Do you at least
agree with this being a bug?
Every tool known to man has the command line overriding settings in
files. Debhelper does just that, so it's fine by me. But I'm not the
debhelper maintainer, so I don't care.
I totally agree that it's fine for dh_installdocs having command line
override settings in files. But that's not at all the bug of cdbs I'm
talking about here.
Yours
Micha
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