On Fri, 07 Mar 2008, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Colin Watson announced in dda that dh_installman automatically > converts manual pages to UTF‐8 encoding. [1] Installing the manual > pages with the upstream make install doesn't profit from this. I > came to the question if it is generally better to install all files > with debhelper. But than I might miss some files on new releases > they upstream installs with his install target.
That's why you generally fail your build if there are files in tmp which do not get installed. > Is it better to use make install to install everything in debian/tmp > and use debhelper to copy the files into the package? What way do > you use? Unless I know upstream's install does everything right and never changes, I use debian/tmp and then move things to the final position. [It's less critical for single binary packages, but for multi-binary packages, it's the only sane way.] Don Armstrong -- She was alot like starbucks. IE, generic and expensive. -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001376.html http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu