[debhelper-devel] Bug#871822: Bug#871822: debhelper: Ignore .install files for "Section: doc" packages when the nodoc build option is set

[Emmanuel Bourg]

On 08/12/2017 08:46 AM, Niels Thykier wrote:

> I appreciate the idea, but it is not scalable to implement this kind of
> filtering in dh_install.

Do you mean that debian/control would have to be parsed on each
invocation of dh_install, roughly once per file installed?


> Instead, I will recommend that you use
> dh_installdocs, dh_installman etc. to install such documentation.  They
> will under the nodoc profile know what to ignore.

I considered that but it won't work. dh_installdocs installs to
/usr/share/doc/package and this isn't the directory we want to install
to (libfoo-java-doc installs the javadoc for libfoo-java in
/usr/share/doc/libfoo-java, and not /usr/share/doc/libfoo-java-doc).

Emmanuel Bourg