Scott Talbert writes ("Re: Does debhelper prune empty directories?"):
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, Scott Talbert wrote:
> > I'm working on a package where I have a directory tree listed in the
> > 'install' file with a destination directory. This source directory tree
> > has
> > a few empty subdirectories in it. Somehow during the build process, these
> > empty subdirectories are disappearing. Does debhelper prune empty
> > subdirectories? If so, is there a way to avoid that?
> >
> > What's strange is that this only seems to be happening in the main package.
> > I have a subpackage which does a similar operation, but it's empty
> > directories seem to be preserved.
>
> I have narrowed it down - it seems to be dh_python2 that is removing the
> empty directories. Perhaps I should take my question to debian-python.
Empty directories are not representable in git. So I (and other git
users) would appreciate it if you would make your package not contain
them, or at least still build if they are removed.
I consider this a bug in git but my git Stockholm syndrome means I am
asking you to work around it in your package. Sorry.
Ian.
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