On 12/10/23 14:54, Niels Thykier wrote:
Gioele Barabucci:
On 12/10/23 14:11, Niels Thykier wrote:
```
debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/man1/foo.1
```
is correctly expanded by dh_install (`d/pkg.install`) but it causes
dh_installman (`d/pkg.manpages`) to fail.
Whatever problem you are experiencing, it is *not* that
`dh_installman`does not support globs, because definitely does as
debhelper itself would FTBFS otherwise (`debian/debhelper.mapages`
includes globs).
maybe it is the combination of dh_installman + dh-exec?
When using executable debhelper config files, please be aware of
the following:
Otherwise, the output will be used exactly as‐is. Notably,
debhelper will **not expand wildcards** or strip comments
or strip whitespace in the output.
This surprises me a bit. util-linux currently uses both dh-exec and
wildcards in `d/util-linux-locales.install` and it works as "expected"
(but not as documented?):
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/util-linux/-/blob/f7d972e9d/debian/util-linux-locales.install
Doesn't this mean that `dh_install` expands the globs found in the
output of the executable `foo.install`?
Regards,
--
Gioele Barabucci
