Package: debhelper Version: 9.20120322 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/dh_install
Hi Joey! dh_install in compat level 8+ has the nice feature to automatically search for files in debian/tmp when no --sourcedir is specified. Here's an example: " usr/bin/foo usr/share/bar debian/baz usr/bin docs/*.html usr/share/doc/foo " dh_install will pick usr/bin/foo and usr/share/bar from debian/tmp and install debian/baz and the documentation as expected. Simple and clean. I have a package where I build multiple flavors, so I install them into say debian/install/deb debian/install/udeb and use dh_install --sourcedir=debian/install/deb resp. debian/install/udeb. In this case, the example above no longer works, dh_install will only look for the files within the directory specified by sourcedir. Imho it would be very useful, if dh_install could fallback to . if it doesn't find the files in sourcedir. It's basically the inverse behaviour from not using --sourcedir. --sourcedir not set: look in ., fallback to debian/tmp --sourcedir set: look in sourcedir, fallback to . Do you think this makes sense, do you see a problem with this? Michael -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.22-6 ii dpkg-dev 1.16.2 ii file 5.11-1 ii html2text 1.3.2a-15 ii man-db 2.6.1-2 ii perl 5.14.2-9 ii po-debconf 1.0.16+nmu2 debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: ii dh-make 0.60 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
