[debhelper-devel] Bug#863447: Bug#863447: dh_install -X is ignored for --list/fail-missing

[Niels Thykier]

Michael Biebl:
> Am 31.05.2017 um 22:23 schrieb Iain Lane:
>> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 12:51:38AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>> I also note, that usr/share/doc/NetworkManager/examples/server.conf is
>>> actually installed via debian/network-manager.examples, which contains:
>>> debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/NetworkManager/examples/server.conf
>>>
>>> I assume dh_installexamples is simply not updated yet to support the new
>>> dh_missing functionality?
>>
>> This also happens with dh_install --list-missing currently[0]. I *guess*
>> that this is because dh_install is run first, before all the other
>> dh_installfoo commands. So dh_install itself has no way of knowing what
>> is about to be installed by other commands. This to me seems unfixable
>> without either changing the order (at a compat bump?) or removing
>> --{list,fail}-missing and running dh_missing after all the dh_installfoo
>> commands. AFAICS they will all need to call log_installed_files for this
>> to work properly.
> 
> Right, I don't think this is fixable with the current dh_install and I
> was actually thinking of the new dh_missing helper here which indeed
> should run "last" i.e. after all other dh_installfoo helpers.
> 
> Michael
> 
> [...]

FTR, dh_missing is run after all (known dh_installX) helpers in the
sequence in debhelper 10.3+.  By default it does nothing, so you have to
override it to pass it --list-missing/--fail-missing.

Also, in compat 9, running dh_install with --list-missing/--fail-missing
may cause dh to assume that dh_missing has been run.  That is a
side-effect of how dh keeps track of which commands have been run.

Thanks,
~Niels