[debhelper-devel] Bug#781370: debhelper: Should allow for something like override_dh*-common in addition to -arch and -indep

[Robert Luberda]

Package: debhelper
Version: 9.20150101
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

It would be nice if debhlper could have override_*-common target
for stuff that is needed by both override_*-arch and override_*-indep
(or alternatively it could run override_* even if override_*-arch/indep
exist).

A comment in /usr/bin/dh says that `mixing it [i.e.non-arch-specific
override] with arch-specific overrides makes little sense', but in fact
such a mix does have sense for at least two of my packages:

 - ispell that needs ./ispell binary, created by build-arch, in order to
   generate arch-indep dictionary packages.

 - afterstep that generally puts the documentation it generates into
   arch-indep afterstep-data, with an exception of a few files (with 
   API documentation) that are installed in arch-dep libafterimage-dev.

Regards,
robert

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (200, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16-3-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  binutils      2.25-6
ii  dpkg          1.17.24
ii  dpkg-dev      1.17.24
ii  file          1:5.22+15-2
ii  libdpkg-perl  1.17.24
ii  man-db        2.7.0.2-5
ii  perl          5.20.2-2
ii  po-debconf    1.0.16+nmu3

debhelper recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii  dh-make  1.20140617

-- no debconf information