Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 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 ?
Perhaps. Maybe we could try to wait for everyone to give one's opinion about this ? Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org
