Bug#895061: exclusions and dh_missing

2020-01-19 Thread Niels Thykier
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 11:56:34 +0200 Nicolas Boulenguez wrote: > Source: debhelper > Followup-For: Bug #895061 > > #935309 (virtualbox) is already closed. > > #877267 (ocaml) is closed in experimental/4.08.0-3 but not yet in unstable > On the other hand, it uses compatibility level 12. > > It

Bug#895061: exclusions and dh_missing

2019-08-22 Thread Nicolas Boulenguez
Source: debhelper Followup-For: Bug #895061 #935309 (virtualbox) is already closed. #877267 (ocaml) is closed in experimental/4.08.0-3 but not yet in unstable On the other hand, it uses compatibility level 12. It seems possible to drop --ignore in compatibility 13.

Bug#895061: exclusions and dh_missing

2019-08-21 Thread Nicolas Boulenguez
Source: debhelper Followup-For: Bug #895061 Hello. The 'ocaml' maintainers have closed #877267, but a new search shows that 'virtualbox' also uses --ignore. I have reported #935309, with a trivial patch getting the same effect by other means. Once #935309 is fixed, the attachment removes

Bug#895061: exclusions and dh_missing

2018-04-15 Thread Nicolas Boulenguez
> Ok, just to confirm [...] ? Precisely. The following tools only apply -X in case 1. This is useful. dh_autoreconf dh_fixperms dh_installchangelogs dh_md5sums dh_prep dh_shlibdeps dh_strip dh_dwz dh_makeshlibs dh_link The following tools apply -X to both case 1 and 2, but 2 is never used

Bug#895061: exclusions and dh_missing

2018-04-13 Thread Niels Thykier
Nicolas Boulenguez: > My understanding (so far) is that there are three unselection > mechanisms, and I have the feeling that only one is worth supporting. > Ok, just to confirm, I understood you correct, those three are: 1) --exclude for paths debhelper automatically work on (but not

Bug#895061: exclusions and dh_missing

2018-04-08 Thread Nicolas Boulenguez
My understanding (so far) is that there are three unselection mechanisms, and I have the feeling that only one is worth supporting. It is useful to provide at least a sensible way to overrides hardcoded or autodetected paths. override_dh_link: dh_link --exclude=/non/standard/symlink

Bug#895061: exclusions and dh_missing

2018-04-07 Thread Niels Thykier
Nicolas Boulenguez: > Package: debhelper > Version: 11.1.6 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi. > Hi, :) > Some debhelper commands log some files as installed while they are not, > so that dh_missing does not report them later. > * files missing because of nodocs > * files ignored because the package

Bug#895061: exclusions and dh_missing

2018-04-06 Thread Nicolas Boulenguez
Package: debhelper Version: 11.1.6 Severity: wishlist Hi. Some debhelper commands log some files as installed while they are not, so that dh_missing does not report them later. * files missing because of nodocs * files ignored because the package is not selected (-p/-N/-a/-i or similar) Should