Package: debhelper Version: 11 Severity: wishlist Hi,
the existing dh override mechanism is perfect to do things like:
override_dh_strip:
dh_strip -Xfoo
It is less optimal for adding (rather than overriding) commands:
override_dh_fixperms:
dh_fixperms
chmod 4755 debian/foo/usr/bin/foo
This has several problems:
* it's ugly because it repeats "dh_fixperms", and it's also
error-prone because the explicit dh_fixperms might be forgotten
(#884419, #884815, #884817),
* it doesn't use the global dh options passed to dh $@ unless they are
repeated here,
* it defeats parallelization (#881175),
* it might or might not work well with override_dh_*-(arch|indep).
(Examples directly from dh(1)).
I'd like to see after_dh_* as alternative to override_dh_*:
after_dh_fixperms:
chmod 4755 debian/foo/usr/bin/foo
This looks much cleaner to me. (In fact, the reason I'm filing this
wishlist bug is that I'm always twitching a bit when I have to repeat
dh_foo in the override_dh_foo incantation.)
Thanks for considering,
Christoph
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