On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 12:36:28PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 10:56:59AM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> What should we do with /usr/share/doc directories when > >> we ship <pkg>-byte? > > > > Well, upto now, i didn't do anything, and the doc directory was > > spamoracle-byte. > > > > It is not a good solution though. And since both packages conflicts, it > > makes sense to move the > > > >> I'd propose that: > >> /usr/share/doc/pkg be the real directory and > >> /usr/share/doc/pkg-byte be a symlink to it. > > > > Mmm, that or the other way around. > > > > I think it is less work to do it the other way around, you have to mess > > more in the debian/rules file to do it like you propose. In the other > > way around you just need to add a symlink, which can easily be done. > > What I had in mind is if the user apt-get install ocaml-zoggy and > ocaml-zoggy-byte is installed because no native version is available, > he may want to search for documentation in /usr/share/doc/ocaml-zoggy > rather than /usr/share/doc/ocaml-zoggy-byte. > > This was just a thought, before I do anything because dpkg does not > want to replace dirs by symlinks and symlinks by dirs (for very good > reasons), so I must do the right thing at the beginning.
Mmm, i didn't know about that. It makes sense to do it your way then. Now, what would be the cost in debian/rules ? You would just need to cp the directory and create the symlink just after doing dh_installdocs, right, not that expensive. Best would be if dh_installdocs could do this all by itself, with providing a simple option like : dh_installdocs -Lzoggy -pzoggy-byte or dh_installdocs -Lzoggy -i What do you think about it ? We could fill a (wishlist) bug against debhelper to have this implemented ? Friendly, Sven Luther
