uploaded first pkg: pd-motex

[Felipe Sateler]

On 19/08/10 13:36, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 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.  

So, pd-motex should be ready?

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler