Thomas Goirand: Thomas> But as it stands, each time I run lintian with the -Ii flags, Thomas> and that it complains about the lack of doc-base registration, I Thomas> feel like it should have been more easy to deal with. I try to Thomas> be a good Debian citizen, so I still do it. But if we had only Thomas> something like this:
Thomas> dh_docbase /usr/share/doc/$PKG/html/index.html \ -t "My Thomas> package title" -f HTML Thomas> and nothing more. Then I believe it would be a lot more Thomas> attractive to everyone, and think that maybe, other DDs would Thomas> not mind so much if the lack of docbase registration done this Thomas> very easy way was producing a lintian error (and not just a Thomas> warning when lintian is in verbose mode). Thomas> I don't really see the point in having to write an Abstract, a Thomas> Title, and a Section, when all of these are already available in Thomas> debian/control, and most of the time, that's enough. I know Thomas> already what people are going to reply here: "what if the doc Thomas> addresses something different than the package description talks Thomas> about?" Well, then make it possible to be overridden, possibly Thomas> doing the exact same way it's done currently, but don't force Thomas> people to write twice the same things in many case, do more Thomas> automation, and you'll get more love in return. OK, so would a debhelper patch implementing this be accepted? -- Ian Zimmerman <i...@buug.org> gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Ham is for reading, not for eating. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87eie8lsmr....@matica.localdomain
