[Build-common-hackers] debhelper: dh_installdocs doesn't handle paths with more than one component

[Robert Millan]

Package: debhelper
Version: 4.1.80
Severity: normal

Hi!

When a path passed to dh_installdocs has more than one component, it will
strip the basename instead of using the full path. This breaks CDBS when being
used as tar-in-tar mode, which invokes dh_installdocs in that particular way.

For example, if debian/docs includes "README", this is how CDBS will invoke
dh_installdocs (I added the -v):

$ LC_ALL=C dh_installdocs -v -pgrub2 build-tree/pupa-0.6+20031114/README
  cp -a README debian/grub2/usr/share/doc/grub2
cp: cannot stat `README': No such file or directory
dh_installdocs: command returned error code 256

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux aragorn 2.4.22-1 #1 dj nov 13 23:57:32 CET 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=ca_ES@euro, LC_CTYPE=ca_ES@euro

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  binutils                   2.14.90.0.7-2 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  coreutils [fileutils]      5.0.91-2      The GNU core utilities
ii  debconf-utils              1.3.20        debconf utilities
ii  dpkg-dev                   1.10.18       Package building tools for Debian
ii  file                       4.06-1        Determines file type using "magic"
ii  html2text                  1.3.1-2       An advanced HTML to text converter
ii  perl                       5.8.2-1       Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  po-debconf                 0.8.6         Manage translated Debconf template

-- no debconf information


-- 
Robert Millan

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