On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:31:52 -0800 > From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Manfred Wassmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: debhelper and multiple README files > > Manfred Wassmann wrote: > > Well, I'm not that familiar with debhelper yet. I mistakenly assumed that > > dh_installdocs would set the permissions of the installed files. > > If it just copies that's nuts. > > BTW I think it would be more suggestive if a command that installs doc > > files would set the permissions right away. Is there any good reason that > > it doesn't? > > Well, um, partly so that if dh_installdocs does not do what you want, > you can work around it and still be assured of proper permissions once > you run dh_fixperms?
But if it was done in the first place dh_fixperms was not required. In other words, it would be redundant but failsafe and you created debhelper to make life easier, dind't you? ;) -- 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 +++
