Package: debhelper Version: 12.1.1 dh_missing(1) says:
Remember to test different kinds of builds (dpkg-buildpackage
-A/-B/...) as you may experience varying results when only a subset of
the packages are built.
And i've seen those different results (e.g., #930042, where .info files
that typically go in the arch-indep packages get flagged as an error by
dh_missing --fail-missing). I'd still like the reassurance of
dh_missing --fail-missing, but it's not clear to me how to resolve the
situation, since upstream builds and installs the .info file no matter
what, but the binary-only builds ignore them.
It seems to me that dh_missing should be smarter about this, at least
for files that are listed in a package that dh in general knows about
but aren't being installed in this particular run of dpkg-buildpackage.
as it stands, i'm likely to drop --fail-missing from the gnupg2 source
package, because i don't see any other way to fix this, but i feel
pretty sad doing so.
sorry to not have a clear suggestion for how to do this, but i figure
the dh developers (or others reading the dh bug reports) might have
better suggestions about how to make it safer/easier to use
--fail-missing.
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