On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 11:11:44PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to upgrade a package, it seems I need to switch to a newer > debhelper version with it, 9 seems to be too old. I did the upgrade by > changing Build-Depends from debhelper (>= 9) to debhelper-compat (13) or 12, > 10 and deleting debian/compat. The package builds fine (after dropping > automake from rules), however, some important files are missing from the > deb, and I am trying to understand why. The missing files are: > - glerc > - inittex.ini > - init.tex > - manip.hlp > and perhaps a few files from the font directory. > In the build log you can see that the files are installed during make > install from the upstream Makefile into this directory: > > /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/gle-graphics/usr/share/gle-graphics/4.2.5 > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=gle-graphics&arch=amd64&ver=4.2.5-8%2Bb1&stamp=1593349513&raw=0 > > After switching to a newer debhelper, the files do not appear in the deb, > although they are still installed during make install. They do not seem to > appear in the gle directory though (adding ls <dir> in the Makefile shows > this), when I build with a debhelper newer than 9, and I would like to > understand why. Or where this is documented so I can do the change correctly.
Level 10 defaults to --parallel and the upstream "install" target depends, among others, on the "clean_install" target. Unfortunately, the rm commands in the latter are silenced so it's not obvious from the log. -- WBR, wRAR
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