* Robert Bihlmeyer | Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > If the INSTALL file contains both building and installation | > instructions, and how to set up the package, what is then the correct | > way to handle that? | > | > Cut and paste the relevant portions into README.Debian or something? | | That's obviously the most correct solution; but you should do this | only if you're comfortable with keeping this in sync with the | actual INSTALL file.
This was one of my worries. | Personally, I have no problems with /usr/share/doc/foo/INSTALL that | contains set-up (or similar) information and some useless stuff. It | only annoys me if an INSTALL file is wholly useless to users of binary | packages -- e.g. GNU's standard INSTALL instructions. Ack, true, I agree Would this be too much magic to add to lintian -- check whether those are the generic GNU installation instructions or something else? -- Tollef Fog Heen Axiom #1: You Can't Win
