Michael Stapelberg: > [+cc Niels, who might have an idea as to how to fix this] > > Hi Drew, > > I’m facing the same issue in one of my packages. > > Drew Parsons <dpars...@debian.org> writes: >> At the moment dh_install --list-missing complains about any file in >> debian/tmp not listed in the install file. This includes manpages, >> even if they are listed in their own manpages file to be installed by >> dh_installman. > > For completeness: this issue also includes documentation pages installed > by dh_installdocs, and, I assume, any other dh_install* command. > > The fact that this bug is now almost 10 years old implies that the issue > is not very easy to fix (or people don’t care). > > Could we make the dh_install* helpers log the files which they install > and then move dh_install to the end of the dh sequence so that it can > read in all of the files which the other helpers installed? >
Hi, I am sympathetic to the end goal. The log file approach could work, but in that case we could even defer it to a separate helper (as it is dh_install is larger than I would like it). I am happy to assist with creating a patch for this. A few recommendations: * If the install log is created under debian/.debhelper it is cleaned up automatically. I strongly prefer this for new internal files. (Feel free to use "generated_file()" for this purpose) * Please create a sub in Dh_Lib for registering installed files, so it becomes standardised. (Documentation goes in doc/PROGRAMMING) Thanks, ~Niels
