I've been trying to create my first debian package following the New Maintainers Guide, and I've run into a problem. The guide mentions that binaries should be installed to ./debian/tmp and then dh_movefiles will move them as necessary to the correct destination. Unfortunately, while the destination directories are created correctly ./debian/tmp is not, so when the make tries to install I get "No such file or directory".
The example uses install with the -d flag, which would avoid this problem. However I would like to avoid having to make any further changes to the build system if that were possible, and it would seem that there should be a debhelper that might do this.
