On Sat 16 Mar 2013 18:08:07 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer escribió:
> Package: debhelper
> Version: 9.20120909
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi! From current debhelper manpage:
> 
>   In some rare cases, you may want to have different versions of these
> files for different architectures or OSes. If files named
> debian/package.foo.ARCH or debian/package.foo.OS exist, where ARCH and OS
> are the same as the output of "dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH" /
> "dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH_OS", then they will be used in
> preference to other, more general files.
> 
> In some not so unormal cases (like packaging Qt and KDE stuff) it would be
> *really nice* to be able to tell dh_install to process both the normal
> foo.install and/or foo.ARCH/foo.OS files.
> 
> In this way we could put the common stuff in foo.install and add the
> necessary missing files in foo.install.ARCH and/or foo.install.OS.
> 
> This can be currently done by hacking debian/rules, but it would be nice to
> have some parameters to simplify this task.

Also, as another way to achieve this, is adding the option to use 
foo.install.common

So if you have foo.install.ARCH and foo.install.common, both files would be 
processed. This will not break previous behaviour.


-- 
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you
and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an
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Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
http://perezmeyer.com.ar/
http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/

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