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Package: debhelper
Andrew Pollock wrote:
> Does dh_installman silently not overwrite manpages that are already present
> in the package build directory? I've got a situation where the upstream
> makefile installs a manpage, and I ship a Debian-specific manpage in
> debian/, which I'd like to overwrite it with, and this doesn't seem to be
> happening.
Yes, it does. It even goes out of its way to look for broken symlinks
and not replace those with man pages. The behavior with symlinks is
probaly to avoid following them by accident and seems likely to be
right, as for the checking for existing files, there may be a good
reason for this, but I've not managed to track it down yet; the code is
the same in dh_installman, and apparently the idea of not overwriting
existing pages was copied straight from debstd before that. I suspect
that it might have been a good idea to prevent those DWIM tools from
doing something rash (or it may have been some kind of optimisation
since they'd often find man pages that the Makefile had already
installed), but is not appropriate for dh_installman.
However, changing it would be the kind of behavior change that I reserve
for new debhelper compataility levels to avoid breaking anything.
Fileing a bug so I can remember.
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Source: debhelper
Source-Version: 5.0.44
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debhelper, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
debhelper_5.0.44.dsc
to pool/main/d/debhelper/debhelper_5.0.44.dsc
debhelper_5.0.44.tar.gz
to pool/main/d/debhelper/debhelper_5.0.44.tar.gz
debhelper_5.0.44_all.deb
to pool/main/d/debhelper/debhelper_5.0.44_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
Source: debhelper
Binary: debhelper
Architecture: source all
Version: 5.0.44
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
debhelper - helper programs for debian/rules
Closes: 85963 217552 242834 288250 415717
Changes:
debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
.
* dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
package install. Closes: #415717
* prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
script and then remove the python files.
* Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
* dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
/usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
* dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
* dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
* Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
/etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
Files:
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aa1252b81ee8b8ba2e89628f03ab5779 268309 devel optional debhelper_5.0.44.tar.gz
49543101d30c7bf07c89514025417561 515576 devel optional debhelper_5.0.44_all.deb
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