[debhelper-devel] Bug#415396: Bug#415396: "dh_install --list-missing" should ignore manpages and other installed files

[Michael Stapelberg]

Thanks for the additional details.

Find attached a patch which splits the functionality into the new
dh_missing helper.

Aside from the fact that documentation is still missing, what are your
thoughts on that patch? Once documentation is added, could we merge it,
then change dh_installman and dh_installdocs?

Thanks!

On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net> wrote:

> Michael Stapelberg:
> > On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:43 PM, Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Michael Stapelberg:
> >>> Sorry for the late reply.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hi again, :)
> >>
> >>> [...]
> >>>
> >>> By “defer it”, what exactly do you mean? Checking for files which were
> >> not
> >>> installed?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Put the logic into a separate helper, which has - as sole purpose - the
> >> responsibility for doing "list/fail-on-missing" checks.
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for clarifying. Would dh_missing be an okay name?
> >
>
> I believe it would.  I did think of a couple of alternatives as well:
>  * dh_missing
>  * dh_check-missing
>  * dh_check-not-installed
>
> (The latter due to the "config" file being called "debian/not-installed")