Hideki Yamane: > Package: debhelper > Version: 13.5.1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > During build tomoyo-tools package with dh13, it fails with below. > > dh_missing: warning: sbin/tomoyo-init exists in debian/tmp but is not > installed to anywhere (related file: "sbin/tomoyo-init") > dh_missing: error: missing files, aborting > > While detecting missing files, dh_missing noted some files with a > similar name to those > that were missing. This error /might/ be resolved by replacing > references to the > missing files with the similarly named ones that dh_missing found - > assuming the content > is identical. > > As an example, you might want to replace: > * sbin/tomoyo-init > with: > * sbin/tomoyo-init > in a file in debian/ or as argument to one of the dh_* tools called > from debian/rules. > (Note it is possible the paths are not used verbatim but instead > directories > containing or globs matching them are used instead) > > Alternatively, add the missing file to debian/not-installed if it > cannot and should not > be used. > > The following debhelper tools have reported what they installed (with > files per package) > * dh_install: libtomoyotools3 (2), tomoyo-tools (22) > * dh_installdocs: libtomoyotools3 (0), tomoyo-tools (1) > * dh_installman: libtomoyotools3 (0), tomoyo-tools (19) > If the missing files are installed by another tool, please file a bug > against it. > When filing the report, if the tool is not part of debhelper itself, > please reference the > "Logging helpers and dh_missing" section from the "PROGRAMMING" guide > for debhelper (10.6.3+). > (in the debhelper package: /usr/share/doc/debhelper/PROGRAMMING.gz) > Be sure to test with dpkg-buildpackage -A/-B as the results may vary > when only a subset is built > If the omission is intentional or no other helper can take care of > this consider adding the > paths to debian/not-installed. > > However, sbin/tomoyo-init file was installed properly. > > # find . -name tomoyo-init -print > ./sbin/tomoyo-init > ./debian/tomoyo-tools/sbin/tomoyo-init > ./debian/tmp/sbin/tomoyo-init > > So I guess it is a bug in debhelper. > > [...]
This is an "interesting" case. What happens is that dh_install pickups "./sbin/tomoyo-init" instead of "./debian/tmp/sbin/tomoyo-init". This leaves "debian/tmp/sbin/tomoyo-init" uninstalled, which is dh_missing is technically correct about (but its message about it is confusing because the prefixes are stripped). This can be solved by forcing dh_install to pickup the "debian/tmp" variant by explicitly prefixing the path in debian/tomoyo-tools.install with "debian/tmp" (as in "debian/tmp/sbin/tomoyo-init"). Thanks, ~Niels
