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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/v2')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -3,14 +3,20 @@ 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 +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 ++ 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 @@ -39,9 +45,9 @@ them. * dh_movefiles should delete empty directories after it's moved all files out of them. (#17111) -* debian/README will be installed as /usr/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) +* 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 |