Package: debhelper Version: 8.9.7 Severity: wishlist Hi!
Due to a bug in lintian the brace-expansion-in-debhelper-config-file warning (introduced in 2.1.4) did not trigger until lintian 2.5.2, which made it difficult to realize there was a problem with it at all until recently. dpkg started using brace expansion [0] due to a change in debhelper 4.9.5 which made wildcards expanding to nothing to error out. I don't know what made Raphaël think that was supported, maybe just trial and error, but it seems like a rather elegant “solution”. In any case I don't want to justify the fact that dpkg is using undocumented behaviour (I'm aware of #480868 and #480939) and that debhelper should support it because packages are using it. Just wanted to request if this could become a sanctioned behaviour because it truly seems useful and elegant. In case you still don't want to support it, could you consider instead to add an option to not fail on wildcards expanding to nothing, so that we can revert to our old debhelper config files, w/o needing to move most of the install files to debian/rules? thanks, guillem [0] <http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=7b4bb2d5fd82854887e5853dae1aeddd28cd98fe> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
