Christoph Biedl: > Nice. You plan to leave the description in debian/control unchanged? > Then I suspect people will still follow just the link there and might > get stuck the way I did. It's so clickable in > https://packages.debian.org/sid/libdbd-oracle-perl > > Also README.Debian is not accessible before the package is installed, > but it's not installable before the procedures described there to > install the instant client have been followed %-)
Hmm, you're absolutely right. I didn't remember that detail and I think it's really the key to improve the whole documentation. > So I'd rather re-phrase the last sentence, use an URL to your README, > and also mention the arch restriction. > > | To install the Instant Client, available for the i386 and amd64 archs > | only, download the RPM package from the Oracle web page and install it > | using Alien. Detailled instructions for this are available at > | > <https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libdbd-oracle-perl.git/tree/debian/README> What about using the whole README contents in the Description field in debian/control and get rid of README? Would it be too much? Thanks! Alex
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