On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 03:31:23PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Justin Pryzby wrote: > > debhelper(7) claims that this is implemented in debhelper v5; I just > > tested and confirmed that an empty TODO file isn't installed, but a > > nonempty one is. > > Thanks for reminding me to close this. > > > I think this is a funny layer at which to implement this, though; I > > would think that it would make more sense that dh_installdocs TODO > > would install that file, no matter what (useful, for example, if it is > > known that it will be nonempty in the very near future). It would > > make more sense IMO if this were implemented by dh-make; its foo.docs > > files could have empty files excluded (but if the user manually adds > > it, it gets installe). > > The whole point is to be able to manually list empty files that could > conceivably become non-empty later, not waste inodes on them in packages > while they are empty (and avoid lintian warnings) and have them > autmatically get included if they do become non-empty without having to > remember to manually do it. Doing it in dh-make would not have these > properties. Makes sense now; thanks. Justin
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