On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:43:37AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:58:14AM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > You'll have to do it manually. The file > > /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz contains all > > chanes between subsequent policy versions. Using this file, you can > > easily figure out what exacly you'll have to change. > > > I don't get it. I've got /usr/share/doc now set up, but I can't get the > link from /usr/doc to work properly now. I put the script from the policy > docs into postinst: > if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then > if [ -d /usr/doc -a ! -e /usr/doc/#PACKAGE# \ > -a -d /usr/share/doc/#PACKAGE# ]; then > ln -sf ../share/doc/#PACKAGE# /usr/doc/#PACKAGE# > fi > fi > > and I've got debian/rules to copy postinst into debian/tmp/DEBIAN/postinst, > and I can confirm in the prepared debs that postint is right there where > it's supposed to in the DEBIAN directory inside the deb file.
If you use dh_installdocs in your debian/rules file this will happen automatically. > But when I run lintian on the changes file, it still whinges about no > symlink being setup for /usr/doc: > N: perl checks disabled temporarily > W: meschach: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link > W: meschach: prerm-does-not-remove-usr-doc-link IANADD however it's been my recent experience with lintian that the last upload to remove perl checks also broke the usr-doc-link check. Every local package I have built/tested with new lintian claims the usr-doc-link is not set, but it in fact is. > (likewise, as you can see, for removing the link, where I have > if [ \( "$1" = "upgrade" -o "$1" = "remove" \) \ > -a -L /usr/doc/#PACKAGE# ]; then > rm -f /usr/doc/#PACKAGE# > fi > as suggested by the policy docs). > > > Am I using the above scripts wrongly? Was I supposed to substitute the name > of the package instead of #PACKAGE# myself? Am I supposed to do something > to get the #DEBHELPER# line in postinst & prerm to work properly? Is > #DEBHELPER# supposed to be there at all? (I thought it was, so it's there). The #PACKAGE# lines above are from the example scripts in /usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debian*/rules if you debianize a source package by running dh_make, #PACKAGE# will be replaced with the package name. If you just copy them yourself you need to change the #PACKAGE# reference yourself. However, the #DEBHELPER# anchors allow dh_installdocs, dh_installmenu, et al to add the appropriate script fragments in their place. Good luck Gordon Sadler
