[debhelper-devel] [debhelper] 01/01: dh_install: Clarify that not-installed is not related to --exclude

Niels Thykier nthykier at moszumanska.debian.org
Sun Jul 31 18:38:35 UTC 2016


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commit 282240a2b5f7da375cac694892dafc3457f09d09
Author: Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>
Date:   Sun Jul 31 18:38:19 2016 +0000

    dh_install: Clarify that not-installed is not related to --exclude
    
    Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>
---
 debian/changelog | 2 ++
 dh_install       | 6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index dfa3ca2..8223902 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ debhelper (9.20160709+unreleased) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * perl_{build,makemaker}.pm: Apply patch from Dominic
     Hargreaves to explicitly pass -I. to perl.  This is to
     assist with the fix for CVE-2016-1238.  (Closes: #832436)
+  * dh_install: Clarify that "debian/not-installed" is not
+    related to the --exclude parameter.
 
  -- Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>  Sat, 09 Jul 2016 11:51:46 +0000
 
diff --git a/dh_install b/dh_install
index f7d5739..4f805ff 100755
--- a/dh_install
+++ b/dh_install
@@ -58,8 +58,10 @@ will automatically guess the destination to use, the same as if the
 =item debian/not-installed
 
 List the files that are deliberately not installed in I<any> binary
-package.  Paths listed in this file are ignored by the check done via
-B<--list-missing> (or B<--fail-missing>).
+package.  Paths listed in this file are (I<only>) ignored by the check
+done via B<--list-missing> (or B<--fail-missing>).  However, it is
+B<not> a method to exclude files from being installed.  Please use
+B<--exclude> for that.
 
 Please keep in mind that dh_install will B<not> expand wildcards in
 this file.

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