On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > Jochen Voss wrote: > > I have a question about debhelper: > > I try to pack a package which has multiple README files, > > scattered over several sub-directories. > > README > > foo/README > > bar/README > > My plan is to install them in the doc directory as > > doc/README > > doc/README.foo > > doc/README.bar > > Is there a way to do this with debhelper (dh_installdocs)? > > Or should I copy them manually. > > Unfortunatly dh_installdocs doesn't handle this well.
Here is my suggestion (as I am currently in the NM-queue any comments are greatly appreciated): In debian/rules create a temporary doc (it should not be in the source already) and copy the files into that directory. Then you can install the directory with debhelper like that: dh_installdocs doc The copying could be done quite easily with a little makefile magic: files=foo/README bar/README all: $(files) %/README: echo cp $@ doc/$(@F).$(@D) -- Manfred Wassmann PGP and GnuPG public keys available at http://germany.keyserver.net PGP: 24B81049 Fingerprint: D7 10 EE 2B 74 16 C0 64 B4 5F BA B2 90 29 3D AF GPG: 6B299971 Fingerprint: A598 A41F 57A3 5D69 83D2 8027 1274 F8CD 6B29 9971 +++ I18N ? For international language set LANG=POSIX +++