Package: debhelper
Version: 6.0.12
Severity: wishlist
It would be useful to have a way to tell dh_installdocs that a set of
files is common to all packages. For example, if I want to install an
AUTHORS file into all packages, I need to put that file into all
package.docs files. It would be useful to have a common.docs (or
similarly named) that listed files that should be included in all
packages acted upon.
An example from my package csound:
% cat debian/*.docs | sort | uniq -c
14 AUTHORS
1 doc/latex/refman.pdf
14 NEWS
14 readme-csound5.txt
And now I want to add another file, so I have to edit 14 .docs files
instead of only one.
This may be useful for other dh_install* tools too.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-4 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.18 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.23-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii html2text 1.3.2a-3 An advanced HTML to text converter
ii man-db 2.5.1-3 on-line manual pager
ii perl 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii po-debconf 1.0.12.1 manage translated Debconf template
debhelper recommends no packages.
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