Unfortunatly, I guess that changing this now could possible be a behavior change that breaks any packages that might inaverdently depend on the current behavior. So I'm leaning toward only enabling this in v5 compatability mode.
BTW, here's a copy of that patch, in case the link ever goes 404. -- see shy jo
Make sure to fail if the glob fails, since it's really a bug to
continue as if nothing had happened.
--- dh_install 2004-01-16 04:47:14.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/bin/dh_install 2005-02-16 17:23:37.916110572 +0100
@@ -138,6 +138,9 @@
if (! defined $dh{AUTODEST} && @$set > 1) {
$dest=pop @$set;
}
+ if (!map { glob "$srcdir/$_" } @$set) {
+ error("missing files (@$set), aborting");
+ }
# glob now, relative to srcdir
foreach my $src (map { glob "$srcdir/$_" } @$set) {
next if excludefile($src);
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