Package: debhelper Version: 9.20120528 Severity: normal I have a package building an arch: all and an arch: any package and I want to fix a permissions in the arch: all one (cpputest). I have put this in debian/rules:
override_dh_installexamples-indep: dh_installexamples chmod 644 debian/cpputest/usr/share/doc/cpputest/examples/*.dsw This works fine when building with "debuild -A" but when I build both the arch: all and the arch: any then it doesn't work because debhelper will rerun dh_installexamples after having run this override (and thus will overwrite the file and restore the bad permission). Extract from the log: dh_installchangelogs debian/rules override_dh_installexamples-indep make[1]: Entering directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»' dh_installexamples chmod 644 debian/cpputest/usr/share/doc/cpputest/examples/*.dsw make[1]: Leaving directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»' dh_installexamples dh_installman Thus I would suggest that when an override-dh_foo-indep exists without the corresponding override-dh_foo-arch then you should not call "dh_foo" afterwards but "dh_foo -a". Conversely, if there's an override-dh_foo-arch without override-dh_foo-indep, then you should run "dh_foo -i" afterwards. Cheers, -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.22-6.1 ii dpkg 1.16.4+0~1337757673.63~1.gbp058673 ii dpkg-dev 1.16.4+0~1337757673.63~1.gbp058673 ii file 5.11-1 ii html2text 1.3.2a-15 ii man-db 2.6.1-2 ii perl 5.14.2-11 ii po-debconf 1.0.16+nmu2 debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: ii dh-make 0.60 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org