[Build-common-hackers] Re: Bug#220748: debhelper: dh_installdocs doesn't handle paths with more than one component

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:53:23PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> I'm not able to reproduce it:
> [...]
> 
> Can you help me reproduce it, preferably outside the context of
> cdbs and at the command line?

After some investigation, it seems the bug can't be reproduced outside the
context of CDBS, so it might well be a bug in CDBS. This should clarify the
problem:

$ cat debian/docs
README
$ mkdir foo
$ touch foo/README
$ dh_installdocs --no-act -v foo/README
        cp -a README debian/grub2/usr/share/doc/grub2
        cp -a foo/README debian/grub2/usr/share/doc/grub2
	[...]

When operating in tarball mode, CDBS reads the filename in debian/docs,
prefixes it with the build-tree path, and passes it as argument to
dh_installdocs.

But dh_installdocs still honours the filename in debian/docs, which has
incomplete path. Hence it attempts to copy the file from both locations,
and fails.

Is that the expected behaviour in dh_installdocs? If it is, then I'd like to
find a way (maybe an extra option) to override this for CDBS to work properly.

-- 
Robert Millan

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