Package: debhelper Version: 9.20160313 Severity: important dh_install normally reports an error and exits with code 2 if told to install a nonexistent file. However, if it is given multiple filenames on a single command line or a single line of a .install file, of which some exist and some do not, it does not report an error and it exits with code 0.
This is a regression introduced after version 9.20150101 (in jessie). Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.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 20150820.1 ii binutils 2.26-7 ii dh-strip-nondeterminism 0.016-1 ii dpkg 1.18.4 ii dpkg-dev 1.18.4 ii file 1:5.25-2 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.4 ii man-db 2.7.5-1 ii perl 5.22.1-9 ii po-debconf 1.0.19 debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: ii dh-make 2.201605 -- no debconf information