[debhelper-devel] Bug#893160: debhelper: dh_installinfo does not record files in a way that dh_missing can see

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Package: debhelper
Version: 11.1.5
Severity: normal
Control: affects -1 src:libgpg-error

libgpg-error's debian/libgpg-error-dev.info contains:

     debian/tmp/usr/share/info/gpgrt.info

but if i use dh_missing --fail-missing, it fails with:

dh_missing --fail-missing
dh_missing: usr/share/info/gpgrt.info exists in debian/tmp but is not installed to anywhere
dh_missing: missing files, aborting
	The following debhelper tools have reported what they installed (with files per package)
	 * dh_install: libgpg-error-dev (11), libgpg-error-mingw-w64-dev (18), libgpg-error0 (3), libgpg-error0-udeb (2)
	 * dh_installdocs: libgpg-error-dev (2), libgpg-error-mingw-w64-dev (1), libgpg-error0 (1)
	 * dh_installman: libgpg-error-dev (3), libgpg-error-mingw-w64-dev (0), libgpg-error0 (0)
	If the missing files are installed by another tool, please file a bug against it.
	When filing the report, if the tool is not part of debhelper itself, please reference the
	"Logging helpers and dh_missing" section from the "PROGRAMMING" guide for debhelper (10.6.3+).
	  (in the debhelper package: /usr/share/doc/debhelper/PROGRAMMING.gz)
	Be sure to test with dpkg-buildpackage -A/-B as the results may vary when only a subset is built
	For a short-term work-around: Add the files to debian/not-installed
debian/rules:34: recipe for target 'override_dh_missing' failed
make[1]: *** [override_dh_missing] Error 2

Please update dh_installinfo to report info files so that dh_missing
can know about them!

thanks for maintaining debhelper,

    --dkg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (200, 'unstable-debug'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  autotools-dev            20180224.1
ii  dh-autoreconf            16
ii  dh-strip-nondeterminism  0.040-1
ii  dpkg                     1.19.0.5
ii  dpkg-dev                 1.19.0.5
ii  file                     1:5.32-2
ii  libdpkg-perl             1.19.0.5
ii  make                     4.1-9.1
ii  man-db                   2.8.2-1
ii  perl                     5.26.1-5
ii  po-debconf               1.0.20

debhelper recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
pn  dh-make  <none>
pn  dwz      <none>

-- no debconf information