Neil Williams: > On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 23:04:51 +0300 > Shachar Shemesh <shac...@debian.org> wrote: > >> Another question I have is regarding packaging. The Policy suggests >> that libargtable2-doc should install the docs >> to /usr/share/doc/libargtable2. It seems that debhelper is not a >> friend in that regard, pushing me to install >> to /usr/share/doc/libargtable2-doc. Am I missing some option that >> would make that easy? > > debhelper is doing the right thing. /usr/share/doc/libargtable2-doc/ is > correct as the package name is foo-doc (it's not the source package > name, it's the binary package name). >
Actually, 3.9.7 ratified that the documentation should go into the "main" package. Accordingly, debhelper is /not/ doing as the Policy mandates. I have added that in compat 11, as it will require changing packages (e.g. doc-base files). ~Niels
