Package: debhelper
Version: 8.0.0
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
please add a --no-log option to the dh_uto_* helper to prevent them from
appearing in debian/debhelper.log.
Rationale: I am going to package a software "program" that comes in two
variants "A" and "B" that need to selected at build time. I want to package
both variants and do the following:
override_dh_auto_build:
dh_auto_build -- VARIANT=A
cp program program-a
dh_auto_build -- VARIANT=B
Obviously, this won't work, because the time stamps of all object files are
still up-to-date and thus they won't get rebuilt. So I have to do the
following:
override_dh_auto_build:
dh_auto_build -- VARIANT=A
cp program program-a
$(MAKE) clean
dh_auto_build -- VARIANT=B
But wait, there is a debhelper script for this:
override_dh_auto_build:
dh_auto_build -- VARIANT=A
cp program program-a
dh_auto_clean
dh_auto_build -- VARIANT=B
However, this will only work for the first build. If I try to build a second
time from the same source tree, "dh clean" will refuse to run dh_auto_clean,
because it is already in the debian/debhelper.log file. Thus things will
break...
So, what I am proposing is a --no-log option to explicitely keep single
debhelper script invokation from showing up in debian/debhelper.log. My rules
will would then look like the following:
override_dh_auto_build:
dh_auto_build -- VARIANT=A
cp program program-a
dh_auto_clean --no-log
dh_auto_build -- VARIANT=B
Thanks for considering this!
Cheers,
Fabian
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii binutils 2.20.1-16 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.10 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.04-5 Determines file type using "magic"
ii html2text 1.3.2a-15 advanced HTML to text converter
ii man-db 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager
ii perl 5.10.1-17 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-base 5.10.1-17 minimal Perl system
ii po-debconf 1.0.16+nmu1 tool for managing templates file t
debhelper recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
pn dh-make <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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