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--- Begin Message ---Package: debhelper Version: 7.0.15 Severity: wishlist I'm switching a package from dh_movefiles to dh_install and there is one facility that I really miss. The way the package works is that after "make install" there are a whole bunch of files in debian/tmp/usr/bin/. Of these, file djview3 should go in package djview3, and the remaining dozen should go in djvulibre-bin. With dh_movefiles this was easy to accomplish: - list djvulibre-bin after djview3 in debian/control - put usr/bin/djview3 in djview3.files - put usr/bin/* in djvulibre-bin.files But this doesn't work with dh_install, as the analogous setup with djview3.install and djvulibre-bin.install results in two copies of djview3, one in each binary package. The can be worked around by expanding out the wildcard, sans djview3, in djvulibre-bin.install. But that is a very fragile, as it requires a line to be added each time a new executable is added upstream. It seems to me that *either* some exception mechanism, like $ cat others-bin.install :EXCEPT usr/bin/foo :EXCEPT usr/share/man/man1/foo.1 usr/bin/* usr/share/man/man1/* or some precedence mechanism, like $ cat others-bin.install :NOREPEAT foo-bin usr/bin/* usr/share/man/man1/* would solve the problem and be easy to explain, and straightforward to implement. (I suppose dh_install -p djvulibre-bin --exclude=djview3 would work, or dh_install rm libdjvulibre-bin/usr/bin/djview3 but that also gets ugly and brittle quite quickly, and also makes eventual migration to "dh binary-arch" and friends trickier.) --Barak. -- Barak A. Pearlmutter Hamilton Institute & Dept Comp Sci, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~barak/
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--- Begin Message ---Package: dh-exec Version: 0.24 I'm not sure why this bug was not automatically closed when dh-exec 0.24 was uploaded but the changelog entry is: * Add support for moving files to a package, instead of copying. Thanks to Barak A. Pearlmutter and Niels Thykier for the report and bringing the request to my attention. (Closes: #498067)
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