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| author | joey <joey> | 1999-10-04 23:35:09 +0000 |
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| committer | joey <joey> | 1999-10-04 23:35:09 +0000 |
| commit | 03a9c3bed1d03e659e581501b097a1effb9f8277 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b7bac949a6dbe4e848fe9da039c64655ef6af2a | |
| parent | 11f6f1e04d23e0a0ad29292996177b3b52ce784e (diff) | |
r291: * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
(Closes: #46183)
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 9 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | dh_installdocs | 5 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index a1dbb0f0..344bc542 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink, + leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing + and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package. + (Closes: #46183) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700 + debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped. diff --git a/dh_installdocs b/dh_installdocs index a94a5142..cc5e00a9 100755 --- a/dh_installdocs +++ b/dh_installdocs @@ -13,7 +13,10 @@ foreach $PACKAGE (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) { $TMP=tmpdir($PACKAGE); $file=pkgfile($PACKAGE,"docs"); - if ( ! -d "$TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE") { + # If this is a dangling symlink, leave it. The maintainer + # better know what they're doing. + if ( ! -d "$TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE" && + ! -l "$TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE") { doit("install","-d","$TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE"); } |