[debhelper-devel] Bug#815506: dh_install: not-installed requires debian/tmp/ prefix

[Niels Thykier]

On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 15:34:28 +0800 Drew Parsons <dparsons at debian.org> wrote:
> severity 815506 important
> thanks
> 
> On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 00:12:50 +0100 Felix Geyer <fgeyer at debian.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > For example this d/not-installed file doesn't work:
> > usr/bin/passenger-install-nginx-module
> >
> > While this works:
> > debian/tmp/usr/bin/passenger-install-nginx-module
> >
> > This seems unnecessary and is not documented.
> > It would be great if dh_install could add the prefix automatically.
> >
> 
> It's even worse than that. debhelper now no longer installs by default
> into debian/tmp, but into individual package subdirs, so Felix's
> workaround does not work.
> 

debhelper by default installs into debian/<package> for *single* binary
package builds and to debian/tmp for *multi* binary builds.  This
behaviour has been unchanged for years.

If you see a different *default* behaviour, please file that as a
separate bug.

Thanks,
~Niels