On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 10:59:05AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> reassign 451665 debhelper
> severity 451665 wishlist
> retitle 451665 dh_installdocs: please register gtk-doc files in doc-base
> thanks
> 
> Le samedi 17 novembre 2007 à 22:23 -0500, Roberto C.Sánchez a écrit :
> > The nice thing about doc-base is that I can then install dwww (or
> > something similar) and serve up the documentation to the entire
> > organization.  Personally, I don't think it is that big a deal as it is
> > just one file (debian/doc-base) and it is automatically handled by
> > dh_installdocs.  However, you as the maintainer are free to choose.
> 
> This would indeed be useful, but I don't like work duplication, and
> writing doc-base files would duplicate the information already in
> the .devhelp2 files.
> 
I agree that duplication is bad.

> I'll see if I can cook up a patch for dh_installdocs, but if you're
> better than me at perl (which is easy), you should try to write it.
> 
I'm not sure if I will be able to.

/me lovingly pats the "Intermediate Perl" and "Perl in a Nutshell" books
on my desk :-)

I'm still learning, but I may give it a go in the next few weeks.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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