[debhelper-devel] Bug#781370: Bug#781370: Bug#781370: debhelper: Should allow for something like override_dh*-common in addition to -arch and -indep

[Niels Thykier]

Robert Luberda:
> Niels Thykier pisze:
> Hi,
> 
>>
>> Thanks for your suggestion.
>>
>> However, I must admit I am not entirely convinced about the idea.  I
>> sort of see where you are coming from, but I do not see why this cannot
>> trivially be solved by the current interface and make target dependencies.
> 
> Yes, one can do something like in debian/rules:
> 
> install-common:
>   ...
> override_dh_auto_install-arch: install-common
>   ...
> override_dh_auto_install-indep: install-common
>   ...
> 
> but this has the disadvantage of install-common being run twice, which
> obviously can be work-arounded by using timestamp file:
> 
> [...]
> 

Couldn't this be "easily" fixed by dh calling make with both override
targets at the same time and let "make" use its dependency ordering to
sort out the rest?

Thanks,
~Niels