[debhelper-devel] Bug#650129: dh_install --list-missing not working ?

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Control: severity -1 important

Hum, I have been starring at this comment for a while. It seems that
the current package avogadro take advantage of this trick:

$ apt-get source avogadro=1.0.3-10.1
$ cd avogadro-1.0.3/
$ cat debian/rules
[...]
override_dh_install:
dh_install --list-missing

What I do not understand is that whenever I do not use
debian/*.install file explicitely but prefer something like:

override_dh_install:
dh_install -pfoobar-tools usr/bin/exe
dh_install --list-missing

list-missing believe that usr/bin/exe exists in debian/tmp but is not
installed to anywhere.

Would it be possible to update --list-missing to be able to have
explicit dh_install rules instead of debian/*.install files ?