[debhelper-devel] Bug#871795: debhelper: please document that debian/dirs is handled by dh_installdirs

[Sven Joachim]

On 2017-08-12 01:23 +0900, Johannes Schauer wrote:

> Package: debhelper
> Version: 10.7.2
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Currently, the man page of dh_installdirs only documents that it takes
> care of debian/package.dirs. But it also takes care of debian/dirs.

This is documented in debhelper(7):

,----
|        Note for the first (or only) binary package listed in
|        debian/control, debhelper will use debian/foo when there's no
|        debian/package.foo file.
`----

> Please add that information to the man page.

I don't think replicating the above information in every dh_* manpage
would be very good, since using debian/foo instead of debian/package.foo
is probably not really recommended (it breaks when you reorder the
packages in debian/control).

Cheers,
       Sven