Andres Mejia wrote: > Before, it use to be that dh_install wouldn't automatically assume that all > files are installed from debian/tmp. Now when installing files that don't get > placed in debian/tmp, like say a file foo in the top source directory, you > have > to do something like > > $ dh_install ../../foo > > Setting --sourcedir=. or --sourcedir=$(CURDIR) doesn't help. It still attempts > to install files from debian/tmp.
That's not right. As the man page clearly states:
From debhelper compatibility level 7 on, dh_install will
fall back to looking in debian/tmp for files, if it
doesn't find them in the current directory (or whereever
you've told it to look using --sourcedir).
So, either of these works as you want:
j...@gnu:~/src/debhelper>mkdir -p usr/bin
j...@gnu:~/src/debhelper>touch usr/bin/foo
j...@gnu:~/src/debhelper>dh_install -v usr/bin/foo
install -d debian/debhelper//usr/bin
cp -a ./usr/bin/foo debian/debhelper//usr/bin/
j...@gnu:~/src/debhelper>mkdir build
j...@gnu:~/src/debhelper>mv usr build
j...@gnu:~/src/debhelper>dh_install --sourcedir=build -v usr/bin/foo
cp -a build/usr/bin/foo debian/debhelper//usr/bin/
Perhaps you were confused by the error message it prints
if it falls back to debian/tmp and does not find the file there
either?
j...@gnu:~/src/debhelper>rm -rf build
j...@gnu:~/src/debhelper>dh_install --sourcedir=build -v usr/bin/foo
cp -a debian/tmp/usr/bin/foo debian/debhelper//usr/bin/
cp: cannot stat `debian/tmp/usr/bin/foo': No such file or directory
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