On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:37:21PM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > Hi there, > > I'am currently in progress of packaging password-gorilla, which is a > tcl/tk application. Well everything is fine so far, except that the > application contains menu items LICENSE and HELP which rely on files in > the source distribution, which I currently install with dh_installdocs. > So basically I need to make these files available to the tcl/tk scripts. > But how should I do this properly? > > 1) Variant 1: > I could install the files to /usr/share/doc, but not with dh_installdocs > so that they don't get compressed and then link them to the target > directory (/usr/share/password-gorilla). > > 2) Variant 2: > Install them to /usr/share/doc AND to the target directory. > > 3) Variant 3: > Install them only to the target directory. > > It seems to me as if variant 1 would be the only that makes sense. But > is this okay? Is there another way to do it? What would you recommend? It's a little known requirement that packages continue to work after /u/s/doc is removed. So it's not allowed to install required files there. You could do (2) or (3) with links *from* u/s/d though.
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