On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 02:09:13PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > The usual way people do multiple binary packages is that debian/rules > calls the package's install method with one target directory and then > for each package, it moves this package's files from that directory > into the package's staging directory. A simple example:
Doh, that makes much more sense than what was done with the original package. Unfortunately, neither method would have upgraded properly with the new package, since the build process was changed _and_ the docs directory was renamed upstream... > > I've gathered that debhelper throws the docs into the -doc > > package because it's marked arch-indep, [...] > > I don't know of such a thing. Which dh_* command would do this? Well, all the docs just happen to be info files, and it looks like dh_installinfo magically determines where to place files based on -a or -i flags. > I found that the debhelper manpages were a fine description of the > steps necessary to create packages. Even if one does not use debhelper > they are a good read. I'll check that out, thanks for the advice. -- Brett
