[debhelper-devel] Bug#868204: dh_installdocs tries to install README.Debian even if it already exists (regression)
Stéphane Glondu
glondu at debian.org
Thu Jul 13 09:19:08 UTC 2017
On 13/07/2017 08:14, Niels Thykier wrote:
> If you don't want to have dh_installdocs to touch that file, then you
> should use either:
>
> * --exclude usr/share/doc/ocaml-nox/README.Debian
> => Make dh_installdocs stop trying to install anything there.
>
> * --ignore debian/README.Debian
> => Make dh_installdocs pretend that debian/README.Debian does not
> exists.
>
> (Untested, from finger memory)
>
> I would recommend using --ignore for this case because it appears to be
> trivially applicable plus I hope to optimize dh_installdocs eventually
> and my current optimization methods are disabled with --exclude.
Using --ignore works. Applied in ocaml 4.02.3-10.
Cheers,
--
Stéphane
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