Control: tags -1 wontfix On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 02:39:05 +0100 Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: debhelper > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > doxygen (and probably other tools) may generate duplicate files, > e.g. as can be seen in this Lintian report: > > X: opencl-clhpp-headers-doc: duplicate-files > usr/share/doc/opencl-clhpp-headers/html/search/all_c.js > usr/share/doc/opencl-clhpp-headers/html/search/functions_b.js > X: opencl-clhpp-headers-doc: duplicate-files > usr/share/doc/opencl-clhpp-headers/html/search/all_10.js > usr/share/doc/opencl-clhpp-headers/html/search/typedefs_4.js > X: opencl-clhpp-headers-doc: duplicate-files > usr/share/doc/opencl-clhpp-headers/html/search/all_5.js > usr/share/doc/opencl-clhpp-headers/html/search/typedefs_2.js > > It would be nice if debhelper could provide some means to deduplicate > such files - either as a separate helper or integrated into > dh_installdocs (since I assume that could handle be the primary source > of automatically generated duplicate files). > Since these are generated duplicate files and from one version of the > generator to the next they may change, be renamed, be moved around, ... > the maintainer as a mere user of the generator should not really have > to care about these files - either by manually deduplicating or by > adding lintian overrides. > > > Andreas > > PS: for opencl-clhpp-headers-doc I now deduplicate manually with a > call to hardlink ... works since the dupes are within the same > directory, otherwise lintian would complain about cross-directory > hardlinks > >
Thanks for the suggestion. I have decided to tag this wontfix. If there is interest in this feature, please consider prototyping it outside of debhelper (e.g. via a dh sequence add-on). Should it become successful, I will reconsider the wontfix tag. Thanks ~Niels
