Re: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-30 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
Marco Budde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, then Debian 2.2 will be broken. No. There are not many packages which quickly switched to /usr/share/doc without the symlinks. The maintainers of these packages quickly changed, so they are alive and the should be able to add the symlink to their next

Re: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-29 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Your example implies that doc-base's install-docs is at fault for > creating files under either /usr/doc/HTML or /usr/share/doc/HTML > instead of files in a single place, with a /usr/doc/HTML -> > /usr/share/doc/HTML symlink. Am I correct? Or did I m

Re: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-29 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > This may work sometimes but not always -> hack. > > ctte decided, that this has always to work. If it doesn't, this > > is a bug in the package. > I assume that I can't start filing bugs against the ~116 packages > on my system (eg, libc6) tha

Re: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-29 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Your example implies that doc-base's install-docs is at fault for creating files under either /usr/doc/HTML or /usr/share/doc/HTML instead of files in a single place, with a /usr/doc/HTML -> /usr/share/doc/HTML symlink. Am I correct? Or did I miss something? In that case, shouldn't the bug go

Re: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
Sorry to interrupt the flamew^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdiscussion here, but I have a quick question. On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 12:01:22PM +, Roland Rosenfeld was heard to say: > > One again: they are *not* accessible via these symlinks! > > They are. Well, maybe. (see below) > > This may work someti

Re: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-29 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
Marco Budde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ROTFL, why should I change dhelp to support a broken file format? Can you give a short summary where the doc-base format is broken? Sorry, I didn't read debian-doc so I didn't know what the problem is. > Please tell me what for do we need doc-base? We nee

Re: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-28 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
Marco Budde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RR> It is always a good idea to use a generic format which can > RR> automatically converted to all useful formats instead of using > RR> one special format. > No, sorry, but this is wrong. Why should we convert files during the > installation process? T

Re: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-27 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > There were some rumors, that Apache would be able to handle both > > directories as http://localhost/doc/ (use /usr/share/doc/ and > > if the file/directory isn't available fall back to > > /usr/doc/), but I don't know enough about Apache to realiz

Re: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Roland Rosenfeld wrote: > On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > > P.S.: The latest dhelp 0.3.14 supports FHS *and* FSSTND :). > > > > I just installed it, but as far as I can see this doesn't > > > integrate FHS and FSSTND in any way but creates two completely > > > incompatible

Re: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-27 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > P.S.: The latest dhelp 0.3.14 supports FHS *and* FSSTND :). > > I just installed it, but as far as I can see this doesn't > > integrate FHS and FSSTND in any way but creates two completely > > incompatible trees one next to the other. Now I can

Re: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Roland Rosenfeld wrote: > Marco Budde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > P.S.: The latest dhelp 0.3.14 supports FHS *and* FSSTND :). > > I just installed it, but as far as I can see this doesn't integrate > FHS and FSSTND in any way but creates two completely incompatible > trees one next to the

Re: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-25 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
Marco Budde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why? What is the advantage of using doc-base? You may want to read the documentation of doc-base... It is always a good idea to use a generic format which can automatically converted to all useful formats instead of using one special format. doc-base give

Re: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-25 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: "Martin Bialasinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: strange behavior of dh_dhelp Date: 24 Sep 1999 09:31:49 +0200 > * "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Joey> You are under the mistaken impression that dh_dhelp is a > Joey&

Re: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-24 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > * "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Joey> You are under the mistaken impression that dh_dhelp is a > Joey> debhelper program. It's not. Don't use it. > > dh_installdocs uses doc-base, which in turn registers documents for > dwww and dhelp. Thous it

Re: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joey> You are under the mistaken impression that dh_dhelp is a Joey> debhelper program. It's not. Don't use it. dh_installdocs uses doc-base, which in turn registers documents for dwww and dhelp. Thous it is a superset and should be used, no? Ci

Re: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-24 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: strange behavior of dh_dhelp Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 19:46:12 -0700 > Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > > Some debhelper scripts automatically generate appropriate > > postinst/prerm etc. with "#DEBHELPER#" setting when one r

Re: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-24 Thread Joey Hess
Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > Some debhelper scripts automatically generate appropriate > postinst/prerm etc. with "#DEBHELPER#" setting when one run > dh_installdeb. You are under the mistaken impression that dh_dhelp is a debhelper program. It's not. Don't use it. > Is there any reason of this beha