Bug#833119: libdbd-oracle-perl: Oracle Instant Client installation instructions outdated

[Alex Muntada]

Christoph Biedl:

> Nice. You plan to leave the description in debian/control unchanged?
> Then I suspect people will still follow just the link there and might
> get stuck the way I did. It's so clickable in
>     https://packages.debian.org/sid/libdbd-oracle-perl
> 
> Also README.Debian is not accessible before the package is installed,
> but it's not installable before the procedures described there to
> install the instant client have been followed %-)

Hmm, you're absolutely right. I didn't remember that detail and
I think it's really the key to improve the whole documentation.

> So I'd rather re-phrase the last sentence, use an URL to your README,
> and also mention the arch restriction.
> 
> | To install the Instant Client, available for the i386 and amd64 archs
> | only, download the RPM package from the Oracle web page and install it
> | using Alien. Detailled instructions for this are available at
> | <https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libdbd-oracle-perl.git/tree/debian/README>

What about using the whole README contents in the Description
field in debian/control and get rid of README? Would it be too
much?

Thanks!
Alex

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