uploaded first pkg: pd-motex

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 23:14 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 02:40:09PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> >
> >On Aug 17, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> >
> >>On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:16:09PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> >>>On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 15:35:10 (CEST), Hans-Christoph Steiner 
> >>>wrote:
> >>>>README.txt and LICENSE.txt are part of the Pd library format.  
> >>>>They are part of the library, and the Help Browser (aka the 
> >>>>library browser) looks for them to display them.  The library 
> >>>>format is basically a directory with files in it, and a subdir 
> >>>>called 'examples'.  That install target actually serves to 
> >>>>enforce that all the standard files are there.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>In this library, I could replace the file with a symlink to 
> >>>>../../../ common-licenses/GPL-2, but other libraries might have 
> >>>>different licenses so this wouldn't always be the case.
> >>>
> >>>I guess that both the license and the README.txt actually belongs 
> >>>to /usr/share/doc/$package, that's what debian policy tells us to 
> >>>do. IIRC, documentation browsers like dhelp and the default 
> >>>webserver's configurations publish /usr/share/doc so that users 
> >>>can browse package documentation.
> >>>
> >>>So moving these files and symlink them to where the package 
> >>>expect them seems to me the right thing to do.
> >>
> >>This is wrong, actually:
> >>
> >>Code must not depend on /usr/share/doc existing on the machine, so 
> >>when a file is needed both by runtime and below /usr/share/doc then 
> >>the actual file should be placed elsewhere and a symlink be placed 
> >>below /usr/share/doc.
> >>
> >>Not sure if this is explicitly clarified in Debian Policy or only a 
> >>result of close-reading FHS (File Hierarchy Standard) or some such.  
> >>Perhaps look for sections regarding example scripts.
> >
> >
> >In this context, I think the above suggestion makes the most sense.  
> >So here's my plan:
> >
> >- make the LICENSE.txt file into a symlink, if GPL, BSD or other 
> >common license
> >- make usr/share/doc/pd-motex/README.txt a symlink to the one in the 
> >library
> >
> >I'd need to remove LICENSE.txt then make the symllnk.  What's the 
> >best way to remove the file?  I could patch the Makefile to remove 
> >the line in 'make install' that installs LICENSE.txt the add a link 
> >in debian/links.  Is there some easy/proper way in debhelper to just 
> >remove an installed file?
> 
> Your questions makes me suspect that you did not notice my earier 
> response in this thread (even earlier than above quoted one).
> 
> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:54:32 +0200
> Message-ID: <20100817095432.GG7578 at jones.dk>
> 
> There I describe how I do similarly with Sugar packages.
> 
> To answer more directly to your questions: No, I believe there is no 
> debhelper routine specifically for this.  Possibly you can make dh_link 
> force overwrite existing object, but I find my proposed approach of 
> replacing only if identical safer.

Ok, I did it with an 'rm' in debian/rules, hope that's ok.  I pushed the
commit.  

Also, FYI, I've been making all these changes to the other 25ish
packages that I'm working on, so they should be pretty tight once I
submit them.  Once pd-motex is in, I am thinking of running one more
thru individually, then once that's done, I'll submit the whole batch.
Does that work?

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