Package: debhelper
Version: 7.4.3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Today on #debian-mentors, we were looking to see why a doc-base file didn't
appear in the final package, depsite the call to dh_installdocs being included
in the build log. It turned out that there was a spare space at the start of
the "Document: " line so debhelper ignores the file.
Any other sort of malformed doc-base file would also be silently ignored.
Sure, crappy doc-base files shouldn't be in debian/ but it would be nicer if
dh_installdocs complained about them rather than just passing over it.
The attached patch emits a warning if the /^Document\s*:\s*(.*)/ match fails.
(warning rather than verbose_print as this is something that the maintainer
almost certainly should be fixing)
cheers
Stuart
--- dh_installdocs-orig 2009-11-11 00:03:24.000000000 +0000
+++ dh_installdocs 2009-11-11 00:32:03.000000000 +0000
@@ -279,4 +279,6 @@
$doc_ids{$fn}=$1;
last;
+ } else {
+ warning("Ignoring $fn as it is incorrectly
formatted.");
}
}
