On Saturday 28 July 2001 2:33 am, Ben Collins wrote: > Why not make the change in debian/rules rather than in the package's > Makefile? > > > install -d debian/tmp > $(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(PWD)/debian/tmp > > Should do the trick.
This way I have to manually create all dirs under debian/tmp (usr, usr/bin. usr/lib etc.). That seems like the very thing the dh_installdirs helper is meant to do, but it only creates the debian/<package-name> dirs. Is the guide wrong? Should I be doing this some other way?
