Package: debhelper Version: 9.20150101 Severity: minor Tags: patch I'm working on package where I install "*.cfg" files as examples. Because those files are used as configuration templates I do not want to compress them so I added the following to "debian/rules":
override_dh_compress:
dh_compress --exclude=.cfg
Unfortunately this also prevents compression of "*.cfg.5" man pages and cause
lintian error "manpage-not-compressed".
I was not able to find how to exclude "*.cfg" files from compression without
affecting "*.cfg.5" files. The only thing I could probably do is to hard code
file name and path as follows:
dh_compress --exclude="examples/myconfigfile.cfg"
but that's ugly for more than one file. IMHO the problem is that "\Q...\E"
constraints (see dh_compress line 137) do not allow me to use regex in the
exclude pattern.
Another problem is that excluded substring is not anchored so unexpected
matches occur if exclude string is present anywhere in the file name.
IMHO the minimum workaround would be to anchor exclusion pattern to the end of
the file name as follows:
~~~~
--- dh_compress
+++ dh_compress
@@ -133,9 +133,9 @@
my @new=();
foreach (@files) {
my $ok=1;
foreach my $x (@{$dh{EXCLUDE}}) {
- if (/\Q$x\E/) {
+ if (/\Q$x\E\Z/) {
$ok='';
last;
}
}
~~~~
More robust and flexible solution would be to add new "--rexclude" option to
allow regex exclusion patterns.
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