Bug#964230: debhelper: dh_missing conflicts with global --sourcedir option

2020-07-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Niels Thykier dixit: >Historical artefact caused by debhelper accepting abbreviations of the Interesting, but I looked at debhelper(7): -Ddirectory, --sourcedir=directory, --sourcedirectory=directory Assume that the original package source tree is at the specified di

Bug#964230: debhelper: dh_missing conflicts with global --sourcedir option

2020-07-03 Thread Niels Thykier
Thorsten Glaser: > Package: debhelper > Version: 13.1 > Severity: important > > Something for debhelper compat 14 ;-) > > I’m packaging a piece of s…oftware whose main buildsystem entry > is in a subdirectory so I’m using --sourcedir=thatsubdir in the > call to dh7. > > The build then fails beca

Bug#964230: debhelper: dh_missing conflicts with global --sourcedir option

2020-07-03 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 3 Jul 2020, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Of course, dh_missing’s --sourcedir cannot be renamed within > a compat level. But it should, for the next one. Others, like dh_install, also misuse --sourcedir. bye, //mirabilos -- «MyISAM tables -will- get corrupted eventually. This is a fact of li

Bug#964230: debhelper: dh_missing conflicts with global --sourcedir option

2020-07-03 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Package: debhelper Version: 13.1 Severity: important Something for debhelper compat 14 ;-) I’m packaging a piece of s…oftware whose main buildsystem entry is in a subdirectory so I’m using --sourcedir=thatsubdir in the call to dh7. The build then fails because dh_missing complains about every fi