Niels Thykier dixit:
>Historical artefact caused by debhelper accepting abbreviations of the
Interesting, but I looked at debhelper(7):
-Ddirectory, --sourcedir=directory, --sourcedirectory=directory
Assume that the original package source tree is at the specified
directory rather than the top level directory of the Debian source
package tree.
The documentor probably wasn’t aware of the clash.
>Anyhow, based on your report, you can probably resolve this by using
>--sourcedirectory=thatsubdir. The longer form is *only* accepted by the
>dh_auto_* tools (making dh_install/dh_missing ignore it).
Ah okay. I’ve used -D for now (managed to get it packaged yesterday),
does _that_ clash anywhere? ;-)
>Sadly, --destdir is also taken... by dh_builddir. >.>
Ah okay.
>Indeed, it might be overdue to clean up this ancient clashes.
Probably for the best.
Thanks,
//mirabilos
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