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

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Sandro Knauß wrote:
> 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>

Indeed, that would be nice feature. I just ran into a case where
having this would very helpful.

> * adding a second column to *.docs files with the packagename where
>   to install

>From the documentation it seems not clear if line breaks are required
to be the delimiter between items in this file (as in many other
debhelper files) or if simple blanks would suffice.

		Regards, Axel
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