Package: debhelper Version: 13.1 Severity: important Something for debhelper compat 14 ;-)
I’m packaging a piece of s…oftware whose main buildsystem entry is in a subdirectory so I’m using --sourcedir=thatsubdir in the call to dh7. The build then fails because dh_missing complains about every file in the tree being not installed. Looking at its manpage it abuses --sourcedir for something with completely different semantics. I’d have expected something else, like --destdir or, with BSD ports terminology, --fakedir, or so. Of course, dh_missing’s --sourcedir cannot be renamed within a compat level. But it should, for the next one. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.6.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii autotools-dev 20180224.1 ii dh-autoreconf 19 ii dh-strip-nondeterminism 1.8.1-1 ii dpkg 1.20.3 ii dpkg-dev 1.20.3 ii dwz 0.13-5 ii file 1:5.38-5 ii libdebhelper-perl 13.1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.20.3 ii man-db 2.9.3-1 ii perl 5.30.3-4 ii po-debconf 1.0.21 debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: pn dh-make <none> -- no debconf information
