Charles Plessy writes: Hi, > > Dear Robert (maintainer of doc-base) and everybody, > > I have proposed the patch below to the Debian Policy in August this year, to > stop recommending the direct use of install-docs for registering documents to > doc-base, and wonder if you agree or would second it.
Yes, I second it. Triggers support was added to doc-base about 3 years ago, so there's no point in calling install-docs directly in maintainer scripts and surely the Policy shouldn't recommend it. Moreover debhelper stopped adding calls to install-docs over 2 years ago, and also lintian warns[1] about such a calls. [1] http://lintian.debian.org/tags/postinst-has-useless-call-to-install-docs.html >> - de-register the manuals again when the package is removed. >> + <package>doc-base</package> control file in >> + <file>/usr/share/doc-base/</file>.<footnote>Since version 0.8.11, >> + <package>doc-base</package> uses <package>dpkg</package> triggers >> + to call the <prgn>install-docs</prgn> script at installation time and >> + de-register the manuals again when the package is removed.</footnote> >> </p> I'm not sure if the footnote is needed. One needs to read doc-base documentation to find out what to put in the `<package>doc-base</package> control file' anyway, and the documentation mentions triggers already. Regards, robert
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