Package: debhelper
Version: 9.20120419
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

today a fellow DD made me aware of a feature of dh_link that is not
documented in its man page. I wanted to replace a bunch of duplicate
files in a package with symlinks. I therefore added some lines of
shell code to debian/rules to remove the files that should be replaced
by symlinks. Obviously this is not required as dh_link takes care of
removing these files itself.

It would be nice if the man page for dh_link would document this
behaviour.


Best regards and a lot of thanks for debhelper
Jan Dittberner

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  binutils    2.22-6
ii  dpkg-dev    1.16.3
ii  file        5.11-1
ii  html2text   1.3.2a-15
ii  man-db      2.6.1-2
ii  perl        5.14.2-9
ii  po-debconf  1.0.16+nmu2

debhelper recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii  dh-make  0.60

-- no debconf information

-- 
Jan Dittberner - Debian Developer
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