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

[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


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