Hi,
Yann Dirson wrote:
> Subject: dh_install: no way to rename files while installing
Yep, that's a little bit annoying, so I herewith second this wishlist
bug report. :-)
> When files have to be installed with another name than the source one,
> dh_install is not sufficient, one has to rename the files afterwards.
Yeah, either that or go back to "install ...".
> What about, for v5 compat level, changing the semantics of the .install
> files, to interpret the 2nd member of each clause as a dir only when it has
> a trailing slash, and interpret entries with no trailing slash as full
> filenames ?
That sounds sane, but that'll also mean that all present
debian/install files will have a different semantic in the future.
> I also thought about using some more heuristics instead, such as "when the
> 2nd component has the same suffix as the 1st one, it's not a dir, it's a
> renaming". That one should be sufficient in many cases, and would make
> transition from v4 to v5 require less work, but I feel it's somewhat DWIM
> and may cause problems: files without a suffix could not be renamed that
> way, for example.
Yep.
I had another heuristic in mind: If all but the last component in the
target exist and are directories, treat the tail of the target as
file. Not sure how many trouble that will cause for a migration.
Maybe, it's better to add a new dh_ helper tool named dh_rename,
dh_installrename or dh_renameinstall, which looks for a file list
named debian/rename. This file will have a similar semantic like
debian/install, except that will treat the trailing path component of
the second argument as the same type (file or directory) as the given
first component. No wildcards allowed -- unless you want reimplement
mmv. :-)
Typical, slightly generalized examples where I ran into the missing of
such a feature:
blafasel.conf.example etc/blafasel.conf
example.conf etc/package.conf
somesh7 bin/somesh
foobar.sh usr/bin/foobar
Regards, Axel
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