Hi Sean, Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> writes:
> Hello, > > On Fri 13 Dec 2024 at 11:36pm -08, Xiyue Deng wrote: > >> I also tried d/install, but it cannot rename files. > > You could try dh_exec. > >> In fact, all Debian control files supporting the "source destination" >> format seem to treat destination as a directory only and are created >> on demand, which I think makes sense. I think manually using >> install/rename the file in override_dh_installdocs will interfere with >> the automatic handling of dh_* tools anyway and I'd like to avoid >> that. > > I don't think it will interfere with anything. Just > > override_dh_installdocs: > install ... > dh_installdocs > > should be fine. > This works, though I kinda like retaining CHANGELOG.org which is an upstream file anyway. But see my next question. >> So instead, I opt for one of the previous ideas: install changelog as a >> symlink of CHANGELOG.org in d/links, which should take care of all the >> unnecessary renaming dance. However, it triggers another lintian >> warning "debian-changelog-file-is-a-symlink", which it should not as the >> document says if the file is under /usr/share/doc/*pkg* it should be >> fine, which CHANGELOG.org is. Anyway, I added a lintian override for >> that for now and will file a follow up bug to track this false positive >> case on lintian. > > I think Lintian is correct, tbh. > Can you expand a little on this? The lintian warning text does say: ,---- | (Symlinks to another file in /usr/share/doc/pkg or a subdirectory | thereof are fine and should not trigger this warning.) `---- which I believe CHANGELOG.org satisfies. >> I took a look at the machine-readable copyright format document[1], >> specifically the example given in the copyright section 6.8, and I >> think it meant that if a group of file shares any copyright holder(s), >> those files can be grouped in the same stanza - in the example, Angela >> Watts appeared in both source files so those files can share the same >> stanza. I think in the case for dap-mode, each file has only a single >> copyright holder so may be this simplification doesn't apply, so I opt >> to provide separate stanza for all files. I surely hope I can list >> everyone under "Files: *" so that things can be simpler, but keeping it >> as-is just in case. > > They can definitely be grouped in the way I suggested. > As Soren explained in details, I think a single "Files: *" stanza should be OK, right? > -- > Sean Whitton -- Regards, Xiyue Deng
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