[debhelper-devel] Bug#818834: dh_install returns success if any file on a line can be installed

[Ben Hutchings]

Package: debhelper
Version: 9.20160313
Severity: important

dh_install normally reports an error and exits with code 2 if told to
install a nonexistent file.  However, if it is given multiple
filenames on a single command line or a single line of a .install
file, of which some exist and some do not, it does not report an error
and it exits with code 0.

This is a regression introduced after version 9.20150101 (in jessie).

Ben.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  autotools-dev            20150820.1
ii  binutils                 2.26-7
ii  dh-strip-nondeterminism  0.016-1
ii  dpkg                     1.18.4
ii  dpkg-dev                 1.18.4
ii  file                     1:5.25-2
ii  libdpkg-perl             1.18.4
ii  man-db                   2.7.5-1
ii  perl                     5.22.1-9
ii  po-debconf               1.0.19

debhelper recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii  dh-make  2.201605

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