Matthijs Kooijman wrote: > 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?
Yes, and if all the work is done by dpkg-maintscript-helper anyway, I tend to feel that adding this special interface to use it does not actually make anything simpler. So it could just document that it needs to be used and point at dh_installdeb's support for maintscript. -- see shy jo
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