Bug#964230: debhelper: dh_missing conflicts with global --sourcedir option
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 directory rather than the top level directory of the Debian source package tree. The documentor probably wasn’t aware of the clash. >Anyhow, based on your report, you can probably resolve this by using >--sourcedirectory=thatsubdir. The longer form is *only* accepted by the >dh_auto_* tools (making dh_install/dh_missing ignore it). Ah okay. I’ve used -D for now (managed to get it packaged yesterday), does _that_ clash anywhere? ;-) >Sadly, --destdir is also taken... by dh_builddir. >.> Ah okay. >Indeed, it might be overdue to clean up this ancient clashes. Probably for the best. Thanks, //mirabilos -- 15:41⎜ Somebody write a testsuite for helloworld :-)
Bug#964230: debhelper: dh_missing conflicts with global --sourcedir option
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 > file in the tree being not installed. Looking at its manpage > it abuses --sourcedir for something with completely different > semantics. > Historical artefact caused by debhelper accepting abbreviations of the full parameters, which causes this issue. Honestly, I am not sure whether dh_install's --sourcedir or dh_auto_* --sourcedir (via autoabbrev) came first. Anyhow, based on your report, you can probably resolve this by using --sourcedirectory=thatsubdir. The longer form is *only* accepted by the dh_auto_* tools (making dh_install/dh_missing ignore it). > I’d have expected something else, like --destdir or, with BSD > ports terminology, --fakedir, or so. > Sadly, --destdir is also taken... by dh_builddir. >.> > Of course, dh_missing’s --sourcedir cannot be renamed within > a compat level. But it should, for the next one. > > [...] Indeed, it might be overdue to clean up this ancient clashes. ~Niels
Bug#964230: debhelper: dh_missing conflicts with global --sourcedir option
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 life. » “mysql is about as much database as ms access” – “MSSQL at least descends from a database” “it's a rebranded SyBase” “MySQL however was born from a flatfile and went downhill from there” – “at least jetDB doesn’t claim to be a database” (#nosec)‣‣‣ Please let MySQL and MariaDB finally die!
Bug#964230: debhelper: dh_missing conflicts with global --sourcedir option
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 file in the tree being not installed. Looking at its manpage it abuses --sourcedir for something with completely different semantics. I’d have expected something else, like --destdir or, with BSD ports terminology, --fakedir, or so. Of course, dh_missing’s --sourcedir cannot be renamed within a compat level. But it should, for the next one. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.6.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii autotools-dev20180224.1 ii dh-autoreconf19 ii dh-strip-nondeterminism 1.8.1-1 ii dpkg 1.20.3 ii dpkg-dev 1.20.3 ii dwz 0.13-5 ii file 1:5.38-5 ii libdebhelper-perl13.1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.20.3 ii man-db 2.9.3-1 ii perl 5.30.3-4 ii po-debconf 1.0.21 debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: pn dh-make -- no debconf information
