Package: debhelper
Version: 7.0.15
Severity: wishlist
I'm switching a package from dh_movefiles to dh_install and there is
one facility that I really miss.
The way the package works is that after "make install" there are a
whole bunch of files in debian/tmp/usr/bin/. Of these, file djview3
should go in package djview3, and the remaining dozen should go in
djvulibre-bin.
With dh_movefiles this was easy to accomplish:
- list djvulibre-bin after djview3 in debian/control
- put usr/bin/djview3 in djview3.files
- put usr/bin/* in djvulibre-bin.files
But this doesn't work with dh_install, as the analogous setup with
djview3.install and djvulibre-bin.install results in two copies of
djview3, one in each binary package.
The can be worked around by expanding out the wildcard, sans djview3,
in djvulibre-bin.install. But that is a very fragile, as it requires
a line to be added each time a new executable is added upstream.
It seems to me that *either* some exception mechanism, like
$ cat others-bin.install
:EXCEPT usr/bin/foo
:EXCEPT usr/share/man/man1/foo.1
usr/bin/*
usr/share/man/man1/*
or some precedence mechanism, like
$ cat others-bin.install
:NOREPEAT foo-bin
usr/bin/*
usr/share/man/man1/*
would solve the problem and be easy to explain, and straightforward to
implement.
(I suppose
dh_install -p djvulibre-bin --exclude=djview3
would work, or
dh_install
rm libdjvulibre-bin/usr/bin/djview3
but that also gets ugly and brittle quite quickly, and also makes
eventual migration to "dh binary-arch" and friends trickier.)
--Barak.
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Barak A. Pearlmutter
Hamilton Institute & Dept Comp Sci, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~barak/
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