[Pkg-pascal-devel] Lazarus help style file

[Abou Al Montacir]

On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 11:24 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi Abou,
> 
> On 02-11-15 11:18, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> > > I think we should move the contents of those files to
> > > /usr/share/doc/lazarus(|-ide) and replace these files with a softlink.
> > I agree that this file's natural place is in /usr/share/doc/lazarus.
> > However it shall e in the package lazarus-ide-${version} as it is needed
> > even if the docs are not installed.
> 
> I don't see any issue with that. This is what I meant.
> 
> > > > $dpkg -S /usr/lib/lazarus/1.4.0/docs lazarus-ide-1.4.0:
> > > > /usr/lib/lazarus/1.4.0/docs I'd propose to add this file to
> > > > lazarus-ide-${version} despite it is arch independent as many other
> > > > files of this package. What do you think? 
> > > 
> > > How about adding a soft link in the location where lazarus expects the
> > > file and put the file in a proper location?
> >  Soft link is fine with me, but the file itself is 2kB so not a big
> > deal, does it really hurt to let it there.
> > Then later we can move all the files on doc to /usr/share and make
> > /usr/lib/lazarus/${version}/docs a symlink to a location in
> > /usr/share/lzarus/${version}
> 
> Let's try to do it one time right. I don't really like these in between
> steps when they are not serving a real purpose. I propose we move the
> other doc files right now as well. It is really trivial (with the right
> lazarus-ide-<version>.intstall and lazarus-ide-<version>.links files).
I've tried what you proposed but have an issue with update. It wil not remove
the directory and replace it with link but rather end with an empty directory.
If you remove and reinstall it works.
Can you please help on that?
-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir
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