On 14 September 2015 at 11:11, Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> wrote: > On 09/14/2015 08:38 AM, Niels Thykier wrote: >> On 2015-09-13 21:02, Matthias Klose wrote: >>> [...] >>> >>> still using the globbing feature for command line arguments in DH_COMPAT=2 >>> mode. >>> Was this re-added in higher levels again? >>> >>> Matthias >>> >> >> Hi Matthias, >> >> Ok, I was not aware of this feature. To be honest, I suspect it was an >> artefact of the old implementation rather than being intentional. >> Digging through the documentation and the commit logs, I could not find >> any mention of it. >> >> Are you using dh_movefiles here because dh_install does not support wild >> arguments? Or would dh_install not work for you regardless? > > I didn't check if dh_install supports wild card arguments. I'm using > dh_movefiles to check if I package every relevant file, so assuming dh_install > would support the globbing, this still leaves the question how to check for > the > completeness of the packaging. And I'm not going to write 150 .install files > just to be able to use dh_install --missing. If there's no solution, I just > would embed a dh_movefiles copy in the packaging.
dh_install does not support renaming, unlike dh_movefiles. This is the only limitation that I am aware off. One can write out $pkg.install files, or even make them executable generators, or just specify pairs in the dh_install invocation. Or use a mix of args & $pkg.install files. -- Regards, Dimitri.
