Package: debhelper
Version: 4.9.8
Severity: wishlist

dh_make(1) generated currently uses hard coded package names in several
places, like:

    install: build
        ...
        install -d debian/beaver/usr/bin \
                   debian/beaver/usr/share/doc/beaver \
                   debian/beaver/usr/share/man/man1 


SUGGESTION

The makefile coulld be better managed if at the top level there were:

    PACKAGE   = beaver
    CFLAGS    = -Wall -g

And te variable were used later on:

    install: build
        ...
        install -d debian/$(PACKAGE)/usr/bin \
                   debian/$(PACKAGE)/usr/share/doc/$(PACKAGE) \
                   debian/$(PACKAGE)/usr/share/man/man1

Even better, why not abstract more:

    PACKAGE   = beaver
    CFLAGS    = -Wall -g
        
    BINDIR    = debian/$(PACKAGE)/usr/bin
    DOCDIR    = debian/$(PACKAGE)/usr/share/doc/$(PACKAGE)
    MAN1DIR   = debian/$(PACKAGE)/usr/share/man/man1

Which mean cleaner code:

        install -d $(BINDIR) $(DOCDIR) $(MAN1DIR)

Similarly for other places which use paths that have PACKAGE component.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  binutils                      2.16.1-3   The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
ii  debconf-utils                 1.4.58     debconf utilities
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.13.11    package building tools for Debian
ii  file                          4.12-1     Determines file type using "magic"
ii  html2text                     1.3.2a-2   An advanced HTML to text converter
ii  perl                          5.8.7-4    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  po-debconf                    0.9.0      manage translated Debconf template

debhelper recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information


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