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diff --git a/doc/v2 b/doc/v2 deleted file mode 100644 index 327e625e..00000000 --- a/doc/v2 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,68 +0,0 @@ -Debhelper v2 is a major new revision of debhelper. Currently, v2 is still -being worked on, and will change in drastic ways without notice. To keep -this from breaking packages, debhelper will continue to operate in v1 -compatability mode by default. - -To enable debhelper v2 features (do this with *caution*), set DH_COMPAT=2 in -your debian/rules. Also, it is a very good idea to add a call to your -debian/rules like this: - dh_testversion 2 -To ensure that your package won't be built with some old version of -debhelper that ignores the DH_COMPAT flag. - -Here are the changes I'm planning to make to debhelper for v2, based on -prior discussion on debian-devel. - -Items marked with a + are done. All others will happen as soon as I can code -them. - -+ Standardize on the name used for the temporary build directory of a - package. Currently it's debian/tmp/ for the first package and - debian/<package>/ for other packages of a multi-binary package. I've - decided after much agonizing to to use debian/<package>. The main thing this - has going for it is it means lots of multi-binary packages need only small - alterations, since they already use debian/<package> for making most of - thier .deb's anyway. I eliminated the other ideas for these reasons: - - debian/tmp/<package>: debian/tmp already has history behind it, - changing how it's used would be confusing. - - debian/build/<package>: confusing (is the code compiled there?) - - debian/tmp-<package>, debian/package-<tmp>: too long, little gain - -* dh_installmanpages will be made into a non-DWIM program, so you'll have to - specify all man pages to install and possibly where to put them. This may - look something like: - dh_installmanpages -x xterm.1 xfoo.1 xbar.man - dh_installmanpages --section=8 su.man - Ok, there's a _little_ DWIM left in there, it'll be smart enough to munge - the .man filenames properly. It'll probably just assume all man pages have - an extension, and delete that extentation, and add the correct one. - -* dh_movefiles will use a name other than debian/<package>.files for the - list of what to move, because it can't use debian/files for the first - package, since that file is already used elsewhere. It'll use - debian/<package>.move - -* dh_movefiles should delete empty directories after it's moved all files - out of them. (#17111) - -* debian/README will be installed as /usr/share/doc/<package>/README in - native packages, and as README.Debian in non-native packages. This is - consistent with the handing of debian/TODO and debian/changelog. (#34628) - -* There will be no change to the names of debhelper config files used, I've - decided against debian/<package>/* and the like, because although those - subdirs do work, they're not allowed by the packaging manual, and they'd - make source unpacking by hand a lot harder. I will leave these files - completly as they are now. However, I will remove most of the language - documenting that debian/<foo> works, and will deprecate that usage. - debian/<package>.<foo> will be preferred even in single binary packages. - -* Every file in etc/ will be automatically be flagged as a conffile. - -* Debhelper config files will support globbing via * and ?, when - appropriate. To turn this off and use those changarcters raw, just quote - them. - -* dh_makeshlibs will generate autoscript fragments for ldconfig. This will - require you call it before dh_installdeb, which isn't always done now. - |