Package: debhelper Version: 13.3.4 Severity: normal dh_missing reports an error if files in debian/tmp have not been installed. But it seems to only check installation by dh_install.
If doc files in debian/tmp are installed using dh_installdocs (e.g. by setting debian/package.docs), then dh_missing marks these doc files as "not-installed". It would make sense for dh_missing to check files installed via the other debhelper install tools, not only dh_install (any of the dh_install* tools I guess). -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.0 APT prefers testing-security APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii autotools-dev 20180224.1+nmu1 ii dh-autoreconf 20 ii dh-strip-nondeterminism 1.12.0-1 ii dpkg 1.20.9 ii dpkg-dev 1.20.9 ii dwz 0.14-1 ii file 1:5.39-3 ii libdebhelper-perl 13.3.4 ii libdpkg-perl 1.20.9 ii man-db 2.9.4-2 ii perl 5.32.1-4 ii po-debconf 1.0.21+nmu1 debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: ii dh-make 2.202003 -- no debconf information