Package: debhelper
Version: 13.5.2
Severity: wishlist
Dear debhelper maintainers,
For lintian-brush, it would be really useful if it was possible to discover
which patterns it would be installing, why and where.
I have no idea how hard this would be to implement, and whether this
information is readily available in debhelper - but figured it's at least worth
starting the discussion and seeing where it goes. I suspect there are some
corner cases where it's impossible to discover like where dh-exec is in use
(but even some information would be great).
I imagine something like a "dh_assistant installed-files" that then reports:
[
{
'install_path': '/usr/share/man/man1/blah.1',
'tool': 'dh_installman',
'tool_config': 'debian/blah.manpages',
'source_path': 'debian/blah.1',
},
{
'install_path': '/usr/bin/blah',
'tool': 'dh_install',
'source_path': 'scripts/blah',
},
{
'install_path': '/usr/lib/*',
'tool': 'dh_install',
'source_path': 'debian/tmp/usr/lib/*',
},
...
]
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii autotools-dev 20180224.1+nmu1
ii dh-autoreconf 20
ii dh-strip-nondeterminism 1.12.0-1
ii dpkg 1.20.9
ii dpkg-dev 1.20.9
ii dwz 0.14-1
ii file 1:5.39-3
ii libdebhelper-perl 13.5.2
ii libdpkg-perl 1.20.9
ii man-db 2.9.4-2
ii perl 5.32.1-5
ii po-debconf 1.0.21+nmu1
debhelper recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
pn dh-make <none>
-- no debconf information
