On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote:
> On 02/09/14 08:34, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
>> Did you try whether it actually works already?
>
> Yes I did, and no it doesn't.
>
>> In dh_compress and dh_fixperms I see -X is documented but I don’t see
>> special code to support it.
>
> Library code in Debian::Debhelper parses -X options and
> $DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE and puts them in $dh{EXCLUDE}, then converts them
> into find(1) syntax and puts that in $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND}, but it's up to
> individual dh_* utilities to make use of one or the other of those.
Thanks for clarifying.
Could you please come up with a patch for supporting this? I’m very
constrained on time these days, so it’s unlikely I’d address the issue
anytime soon.
>
> In dh_compress:
>
> if (@files && defined($dh{EXCLUDE}) && $dh{EXCLUDE}) {
> my @new=();
> foreach (@files) {
> my $ok=1;
> foreach my $x (@{$dh{EXCLUDE}}) {
> if (/\Q$x\E/) {
> $ok='';
> last;
> }
> }
> push @new,$_ if $ok;
> }
> @files=@new;
> }
>
> and in dh_fixperms:
>
> my $find_options='';
> if (defined($dh{EXCLUDE_FIND}) && $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} ne '') {
> $find_options="! \\( $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} \\)";
> }
>
> Regards,
> S
>
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Best regards,
Michael
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