On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 11:22:50PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > The behavior is this: [snip]
So I've noticed :) I read the manuals after I posted, and it's like you say. > If you want it to use a different temporary directotory, you can always use > -Ptmpdir, which will force the debhelper command to use "tmpdir" as the > temporary directory. But that means that I can say goodbye to invoking just 'dh_strip' for all packages - I have to call it once, and then once more with -Pwhatever because it won't parse the changed directory on the first run. Yes that is easily solvable but it'll also make my debian/rules a total mess :( > This design is admittedly, a little wacked. Unfortunatly, I inherited it > from debstd. If debhelper hadn't been mostly compatable with debstd in the > beginning, it probably wouldn't have caught on. But now I'm left with debstd > compatability-cruft. One of these days, I'm going to figure out how to get > rid of it w/o breaking backwards compatability too badly. (I hope.) Too bad. I'll stick to this in the meantime. > > And when I try that same thing in another target, it will create > > debian/package/<dir>, and wouldn't even think about debian/tmp/. > > Are you sure? That would be a serious bug in debhelper. However, don't take my words for granted - I *think* I noticed this behaviour - but that was in a complicated situation and I was tired. -- enJoy -*/\*- http://jagor.srce.hr/~jrodin/
