Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My point is that half the reason why dh_install was introduced instead > of dh_movefiles is to copy files, not move them, and it seems odd that > now there's a thread asking how to get dh_install to move files. If you > want to move files, don't use dh_install.
I never asked how to get dh_install to move files. I asked what the reasons are why neither dh_install nor dh_movefiles use it. And it seems to me that the summary of the answers is: It is unwanted in most cases, in particular because of idempotency. But in cases where idempotency is less important than other things - time and disk space savings - there is no technical reason not to use it in package building. Using hard links may be an alternative, but not without major changes to the code. I have not yet decided whether I'm going to prepare a patch for dh_install, for an optional "--move" behavior, or just use it in a handcrafted way in my packaging script. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
