Package: debhelper Version: 5.0.61 Severity: normal symbols files can have #include directives to share common information between multiple files (for arch-specific symbols files mainly).
However include directives contain path relative to the file that contain them. These files are expected to be in "debian" in the general case, but with debhelper the main file is copied in debian/<package>/DEBIAN before calling dpkg-gensymbols. This means that included files are searched in debian/<package>/DEBIAN and are not found of course. I'm sorry, it looks like I gave you bad advice in #443978 with this idea to copy the file. Do we have any other working, not too ugly solution? One possible solution is to move away symbols files that are catched by your --ignore option. If something like that is not acceptable, I suppose that I'll have to implement a -I option to pass explicitely the reference file to use. On the other hand, I might want in the future to introduce changes to the search order too... notably adding a new intermediary step that would be debian/package.symbols.<kernel> (I have seen cases where the symbols are the same on linux, but on hurd or kfreebsd they are different). I imagine it would be best if debhelper doesn't need to be adjusted once more when I do that. What do you think? -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20071027-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii coreutils 5.97-5.4 The GNU core utilities ii dpkg-dev 1.14.11 package building tools for Debian ii file 4.21-3 Determines file type using "magic" ii html2text 1.3.2a-3 An advanced HTML to text converter ii perl 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii po-debconf 1.0.10 manage translated Debconf template debhelper recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
