Hey Joey,

> I thought I saw something on debian-dpkg about dpkg-maintscript-helper
> getting support for removal of old directories, as this presumably does.
> Although I could be remembering wrong, if it's going to do it, 
> this should use it.

For reference, here's the wishlist report about it:

    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583585

And the corresponding thread on the mailing list:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.dpkg.general/13766/

I'll keep eye on there and update my patch once dpkg is updated.


I also just realized: If we do actually use dpkg-maintscript-helper for
this, that means any package using it will need to to Pre-Depend on the
dpkg version introducing this new feature (like documented in the
dpkg-maintscript-helper manpage). We'll have to mention this fact in the
dh_installdocs manpage as well.

I guess a package would also need to Build-Depend on the version of
debhelper introducing the --upgrade-link-doc flag, so that version
number should probably be listed in the manpage as well?

Gr.

Matthijs

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