On Wednesday 23 April 2008 23:25:41 Joey Hess wrote:
> Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > It would be useful to have a way to tell dh_installdocs that a set of
> > files is common to all packages. For example, if I want to install an
> > AUTHORS file into all packages, I need to put that file into all
> > package.docs files. It would be useful to have a common.docs (or
> > similarly named) that listed files that should be included in all
> > packages acted upon.
>
> dh_installdocs -A AUTHORS
>
> That will do it, supplimenting the files in the .docs file with the ones
> specified at the command line.

Yes, but then I need to maintain debian/rules (which normally doesn't define 
files to be acted upon by debhelper) and *.docs. I find it annoying (and 
sometimes confusing) to have to do the same thing in 2 places.


-- 
Felipe Sateler

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