[debhelper-devel] Bug#824221: debhelper: Standards-Version 3.9.7 recommends to install additional docs under the main package

[Sandro Knauß]

Package: debhelper
Version: 9.20160403
Severity: normal

Hey,

Standard-Version 3.9.7 recommends that additional documentation is installed under 
/usr/share/doc/<package> instaed of /usr/share/doc/<package>-doc

It would be nice if debhelper can handle this in a nice way.
* For example an additional option to install all files in <package>-doc.docs under /usr/share/doc/<package>
* adding a second coloum to *docs file with the pacakagename where to install

It would help a lot to comply with Standards-Version 3.9.7. Because the only way to comply sofar is to install everywith with the .install files.

Regards,

sandro

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  autotools-dev            20160430.1
ii  binutils                 2.26-9
ii  dh-autoreconf            12
ii  dh-strip-nondeterminism  0.016-1
ii  dpkg                     1.18.7
ii  dpkg-dev                 1.18.7
ii  file                     1:5.25-2
ii  libdpkg-perl             1.18.7
ii  man-db                   2.7.5-1
ii  perl                     5.22.2-1
ii  po-debconf               1.0.19

debhelper recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii  dh-make  2.201606

-- no debconf information