Package: debhelper Version: 5.0.37.3 Hi!
While evaluating a curious kernel build failure in Ubuntu (where we use a dh_strip wrapper to automatically generate debug symbol packages for everything) I noticed a questionable behaviour: If the package build directory does not exist, dh_* exits successfully rather than failing (example in the built pmount source directory): $ ls -d debian/pmount debian/pmou ls: debian/pmou: No such file or directory debian/pmount $ dh_strip -ppmount --tmpdir=debian/pmou; echo $? Can't stat debian/pmou: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/dh_strip line 192 0 This also happens without --tmpdir: $ dh_strip -ppmount; echo $? Can't stat debian/pmount: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/dh_strip line 192 0 This also happens with dh_fixperms, so I guess dh_strip is not the only affected script. IMHO dh_* should really fail in that case. Otherwise packages with typos or bugs debian/rules silently build and such failures might go unnoticed. (in our kernel example, a make prerequisite was missing and thus dh_strip did not have any effect; without our wrapper we would never have noticed). Thank you, Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com Debian Developer http://www.debian.org In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
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