On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 12:05:37AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Why even involve debhelper? At least in the case of the Project Gutenberg > files some of which I have, they are just long ascii files so the rules > file could just stick them into (for example) /usr/share/doc/etexts call > doc-base and be done with it. AFAIK all the project Gutenberg files are > public domain so one generic fill in the blanks copyright file would > suffice. Voila you almost instantly have 2000 works containing more than > a gig of text. > > I'd buy such a CD if it were offered. And I know plenty of people who > would too.
Works for me. Real question is: does anyone care enough to bother? Alternate question: why do we even have to package up flat text files? Why can't we just import them into debian in some regular manner? [I can see that naming convention is important, but are there any other issues beyond that? -- I mean, besides the issue of the current implementation of dpkg.] -- Raul
