[debhelper-devel] Bug#436240: debhelper: exclude file for dh_install --list-missing

[Niels Thykier]

On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:26:14 +0200 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e at gmx.net> wrote:
> Package: debhelper
> Version: 5.0.53
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Some packages install boatloads of files and exclude boatloads of files.
> In order to keep track of that, dh_install --list-missing or --fail-missing
> is useful, but adding dozens or hundreds of exceptions on the command line
> is awkard.  It would be useful to have a file, say, debian/not-installed
> that lists the files to exclude from the missing checks.  Alternatively,
> an option such as --exclude-from to name the exception file would work.
> The idea is that the concatenation of *.install and not-installed would
> come out to be the complete file list that the upstream source installs.
> 
> I'm not exactly sure on the best interface for this.  It might make sense
> to have a package-specific *.not-installed as well.  The other question is
> whether this file should be an exact equivalent to specifying -X on the
> command line or whether it should apply only to the missing check. The
> former would probably make more sense.
> 
> 

On a related note, cdbs supports this feature already (see #423394).

~Niels