[debhelper-devel] [debhelper] 01/01: dh_install: Improve not-installed documentation

[Niels Thykier]

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commit cf998895db65d990f878a0183d17df6dac96210a
Author: Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>
Date:   Thu Mar 10 20:02:57 2016 +0000

    dh_install: Improve not-installed documentation
    
    Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>
---
 debian/changelog | 2 ++
 dh_install       | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index dd862d0..784e4c0 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 debhelper (9.20160306+unreleased) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   * Remove dh_undocumented.
+  * dh_install: Attempt to improve the documentation of the
+    config file "debian/not-installed".
 
  -- Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>  Thu, 10 Mar 2016 03:32:41 +0000
 
diff --git a/dh_install b/dh_install
index 9288e86..7dc4b64 100755
--- a/dh_install
+++ b/dh_install
@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@ 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 any package.
-This is used with B<--list-missing> (or B<--fail-missing>) as an
-exclude file.
+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>).
 
 Please keep in mind that dh_install will B<not> expand wildcards in
 this file.

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