Control: tags -1 moreinfo On 2015-09-09 00:52, Michael Banck wrote: > Package: debhelper > Version: 9.20150101 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > I had the case of one upstream package shipping a useless ChangeLog file > (basically having "check Github" as content). dh_installchangelogs > installs this file automatically, unless I manually intervene. The only > way to do so seems to be to add additional targets to debian/rules. > > My original idea of just shipping an empty debian/<package>.changelog > file did not work, debhelper aborted with an error. > > So I'm filing this wishlist bug for consideration of empty support files > to imply no-ops rather than errors. I think that would be an elegant > design, but I am not sure whether this is in line with dh in general. > > > Michael > > [...]
Hi Michael,
Thanks for your suggestion.
Unfortunately, I am not convinced it can be trivially implemented as
such. In particular, please note that you probably do not want
dh_installchangelogs to be a (complete) no-op as it also installs the
Debian changelogs.
A couple of notes:
* debian/<pkg>.changelog is *not* the debhelper config file for
dh_installchangelogs, but rather the *actual* changelog to put
in that package.
- That is why it breaks when it is empty.
* A completely empty override target in debian/rules will make the
command "disappear" from the sequence. Note that is must not
contain a "comment-command"[1].
- Useful for skipping other "dh_*"-commands, but maybe not
dh_installchangelogs.
* Beyond dh_installchangelogs: Some commands have side-effects
beyond their arguments and their helper files.
So far, the best solution I can come up with is to use the -X feature.
Thanks,
~Niels
[1] This works:
"""
# Skip dh_changelogs
override_dh_changelogs:
"""
This calls "# Skip dh_changelogs", which is a no-op but more noisy than
needed:
"""
override_dh_changelogs:
# Skip dh_changelogs
"""
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