[debhelper-devel] Bug#681510: debhelper: dh_install --fail-missing defaults to . as sourcedir even when install itself uses debian/tmp

[Niels Thykier]

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On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:29:38 +0200 Luk Claes <luk at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: debhelper
> Version: 9.20120608
> Severity: normal
> 
> dh_install --fail-missing complains about not installed files even if they got installed. This only happens when not specifying sourcedir explicitly when invoking dh_install. It seems it also does happen only when using v7 or higher and not specifying explicitly where the files should be installed to in the <package>.install files. According to the documentation it uses debian/tmp by default as sourcedir in that case. As the installation itself worked, it seems there is only something missing in keeping track of what got installed.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Luk
> 
> 
> 

Hi Luk,

Do you still experience this issue?  My gut feeling is that this bug
probably have been fixed already by now (due to some recent experiments
with moving --fail-missing to a separate helper, where I did not notice
this issue).

Thanks,
~Niels