Control: tags -1 -patch On 2015-03-25 00:12, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > 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". > > [...] > > 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: > > [...]
Hi, Unfortunately, the proposed change (anchoring the exclusion pattern) could break any number of packages, where the maintainer only used a substring as parameter for --exclude. Also, --exclude is used in a number of different tools that would need a similar change (with the same possible breakage). > More robust and flexible solution would be to add new "--rexclude" option to > allow regex exclusion patterns. > > [...] A new argument is a much safer choice from my PoV. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
