[maemo-developers] documentation in .deb packages

[From: Andrew Zabolotny]

Hello!

I'm trying to understand the machinery that automatically removes the
documentation file when installing them on tablet. So far my packages
install a few files in /usr/share/doc/${pkg}/ and for some reason they
are not autoremoved.

Some more complex packages also have documentation inside the .deb
file, but at some point it is removed, although I don't get at which
(install-docs in postinst it seems?)

Can somebody explain how this works and what I should put in the .rules
to generate the correct postinst hooks.

For reference, my package builds with the following commands:

dh_installchangelogs
dh_installdocs
dh_install
dh_compress
dh_fixperms
dh_installdeb
dh_gencontrol
dh_md5sums
dh_builddeb

Sure, I can just remove dh_installchangelogs & dh_installdocs and there
simply won't be any docs in the .deb. However, it's a matter of
principle :-)

I have a postinst script, but it contains a proper #DEBHELPER# line so
debhelper could insert there whatever he wants... however, #DEBHELPER#
is replaced with a empty line.

-- 
Andrew
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