Debian Bug report logs - #436240
debhelper: exclude file for dh_install --list-missing

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: debhelper: exclude file for dh_install --list-missing

Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:26:14 +0200

Package: debhelper
Version: 5.0.53
Severity: wishlist

Some packages install boatloads of files and exclude boatloads of files.
In order to keep track of that, dh_install --list-missing or --fail-missing
is useful, but adding dozens or hundreds of exceptions on the command line
is awkard.  It would be useful to have a file, say, debian/not-installed
that lists the files to exclude from the missing checks.  Alternatively,
an option such as --exclude-from to name the exception file would work.
The idea is that the concatenation of *.install and not-installed would
come out to be the complete file list that the upstream source installs.

I'm not exactly sure on the best interface for this.  It might make sense
to have a package-specific *.not-installed as well.  The other question is
whether this file should be an exact equivalent to specifying -X on the
command line or whether it should apply only to the missing check. The
former would probably make more sense.

Message #10 received at 436240@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ove Kaaven <ovek@arcticnet.no>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <436240@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: debhelper: exclude file for dh_install

Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:48:53 +0100

Package: debhelper
Version: 6.0.5
Followup-For: Bug #436240

Seconded... I'd love to be able to use --fail-missing, but a number of
files I just don't want to install stops me from doing so (elegantly).
For now, maybe I'll just insert a bunch of "rm"s before dh_install...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  binutils            2.18.1~cvs20080103-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  dpkg-dev            1.14.16.6            package building tools for Debian
ii  file                4.23-2               Determines file type using "magic"
ii  html2text           1.3.2a-3             An advanced HTML to text converter
ii  man-db              2.5.1-2              on-line manual pager
ii  perl                5.8.8-12             Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  po-debconf          1.0.12               manage translated Debconf template

debhelper recommends no packages.

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Message #15 received at 436240@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Steffen Moeller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <436240@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: don't list files in .manpages or .examples as missing

Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:55:38 +0200

Package: debhelper
Version: 7.4.3
Severity: normal

I moved files from the mypackage.install to the mypackage.manpages list,
and now it is reported as "non-installed".

I made sure that dh_installman is executed earlier than dh_install, but this did not help.

So, either dh_install somehow communicates with the other tools, or the
dh_install(doc,examples,man) tools get a "--mv-not-cp" option

Steffen

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  binutils              2.19.91.20091006-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  dpkg-dev              1.15.4             Debian package development tools
ii  file                  5.03-2             Determines file type using "magic"
ii  html2text             1.3.2a-14          advanced HTML to text converter
ii  man-db                2.5.6-3            on-line manual pager
ii  perl                  5.10.1-5           Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-base             5.10.1-5           minimal Perl system
ii  po-debconf            1.0.16             tool for managing templates file t

debhelper recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii  dh-make                       0.50       tool that converts source archives

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Message #20 received at 436240@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>

To: 436240@bugs.debian.org

Subject: debhelper: exclude file for dh_install

Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:34:56 +1100

I'd find some kind of exclude file facility useful too.  In
gerris.install I use debian/tmp/usr/bin to install a bevy of
executables.  Saves listing them all by hand (there's about 16 of them).
But in the same bin dir there are two binaries which I do want to
exclude.  So it would be handy to be able to list the excluded files in
the same place as the installable ones.

Actually, from my point of view it makes sense to have the -X entries
listed inside the *.install file itself.  Then everything would be in
the same place, making maintenance easier.  I guess the excluded entries
would have to have a negation operator ('!', say) as the first character
on the line.

Drew

Message #25 received at 436240@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezmeyer@gmail.com>

To: 436240@bugs.debian.org

Subject: debhelper: exclude file for dh_install --list-missing

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:26:25 -0300

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Indeed, this will be **very** useful, specially for bug packages like KDE.

+1 for this wishlist bug.

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Message #30 received at 436240@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezmeyer@gmail.com>

To: 436240@bugs.debian.org

Subject: typo

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:29:37 -0300

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s/bug/big, clearly ;-)



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Message #35 received at 436240@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>

To: 436240@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: debhelper: exclude file for dh_install --list-missing

Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:26:41 +0200

On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:26:14 +0200 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> Package: debhelper
> Version: 5.0.53
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Some packages install boatloads of files and exclude boatloads of files.
> In order to keep track of that, dh_install --list-missing or --fail-missing
> is useful, but adding dozens or hundreds of exceptions on the command line
> is awkard.  It would be useful to have a file, say, debian/not-installed
> that lists the files to exclude from the missing checks.  Alternatively,
> an option such as --exclude-from to name the exception file would work.
> The idea is that the concatenation of *.install and not-installed would
> come out to be the complete file list that the upstream source installs.
> 
> I'm not exactly sure on the best interface for this.  It might make sense
> to have a package-specific *.not-installed as well.  The other question is
> whether this file should be an exact equivalent to specifying -X on the
> command line or whether it should apply only to the missing check. The
> former would probably make more sense.
> 
> 

On a related note, cdbs supports this feature already (see #423394).

~Niels

Message #42 received at 436240-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>

To: 436240-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#436240: fixed in debhelper 9.20151004

Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2015 16:04:40 +0000

Source: debhelper
Source-Version: 9.20151004

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debhelper, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 436240@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> (supplier of updated debhelper package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2015 17:34:16 +0200
Source: debhelper
Binary: debhelper
Architecture: source all
Version: 9.20151004
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers <debhelper-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
Description:
 debhelper  - helper programs for debian/rules
Closes: 436240 516721 595097 672282 677353 698054 719148 748993 759895 776103 790820 791823 794396 794898 795193 795519 797002 797904 798116 800332
Changes:
 debhelper (9.20151004) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Niels Thykier ]
   * dh/dh_auto_*: Apply patch from Eduard Sanou to define
     SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.  (Closes: #791823)
   * cmake.pm: Add better cross-compile support for cmake.
     Heavily based on a patch from Helmut Grohne.
     (Closes: #794396)
   * cmake.pm: Pass -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc and
     -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTATEDIR=/var to cmake.  Thanks to
     Felix Geyer, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer and
     Michael Terry for the assistance plus suggestions.
     (Closes: #719148)
   * dh_installinit: Quote directory name before using it in
     a regex.
   * dh_installinit: Create script snippts for tmpfiles.d
     files even if the package has no sysvinit script or
     explicit debian/<package>.service file.
     (Closes: #795519)
   * dh_makeshlibs: Revert passing -X to ldconfig in compat 10
     after talking with the glibc maintainer.  This is not the
     right place to make this change.
   * d/control: Remove the homepage field.
   * dh: Make dh_strip_nondeterminism optional, so debhelper
     does not need to build-depend on it.
   * dh_gencontrol/dh_builddeb: Temporarily stop building ddebs
     for udebs as dpkg-gencontrol and dpkg-deb does not agree
     the default file extension for these.
   * dh_builddeb: Generate udebs with the correct filename even
     when "-V" is passed to dpkg-gencontrol.  This relies on
     dpkg-deb getting everything but the extension correct
     (see #575059, #452273 for why it does not produce the
      correct extesion).
     (Closes: #516721, #677353, #672282)
   * Dh_Lib.pm: Drop now unused "udeb_filename" subroutine.
   * dh_strip.1: Correct the documentation about ddebs to
     reflect the current implementation (rather than the
     desired "state").  Thanks to Jakub Wilk for the report.
     (Closes: #797002)
   * dh_fixperms: Reset permissions to 0644 for .js, .css,
     .jpeg, .jpg, .png, and .gif files.  Thanks to Ernesto
     Hernández-Novich for the suggestion.  (Closes: #595097)
   * dh_install: Read debian/not-installed if present as a
     list of files that are deliberately not installed.
     Files listed here will not cause dh_install to complain
     with --list-missing.  Thanks to Peter Eisentraut for the
     suggestion.  (Closes: #436240)
   * Dh_Lib: Cherry-pick patch from Chris Lamb to only read
     the latest changelog entry when determing the
     SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
   * debhelper.7: Provide a better example of how to insert
     the debhelper maintainer script snippets into a maintainer
     script written in Perl.  Thanks to Jakub Wilk for
     reporting the issues.  (Closes: #797904)
   * dh_shlibdeps: The "-L" option can now be passed multiple
     times with different package names.  Thanks to Tristan
     Schmelcher for the suggestion.  (Closes: #776103)
   * dh,Buildsytems: In compat 10, default to --parallel.
   * dh,Buildsytems: Accept "--no-parallel" to disable
     parallel builds.  It is effectively the same as using
     --max-parallel=1 but may be more intuitive to some people.
   * dh_makeshlibs: Use a noawait trigger to invoke ldconfig
     rather maintscripts.
   * dh_installdirs.1: Add a note that many packages will work
     fine without calling dh_installdirs.  (Closes: #748993)
   * dh_compress: Apply patch from Rafael Kitover to support
     passing files to dh_compress that would have been
     compressed anyway.  (Closes: #794898)
   * Dh_Lib: Apply patch from Gergely Nagy to make debhelper
     export "DH_CONFIG_ACT_ON_PACKAGES" when executing an
     executable debhelper config file.  This is intended to
     assist dh-exec (etc.) in figuring what packages are
     acted on.  (Closes: #698054)
   * dh_movefiles: Expand globs in arguments passed in all
     compat levels (and not just compat 1 and 2).
     (Closes: #800332)
   * dh_installinit: Clearly document that --onlyscripts
     should generally be used with -p (or similar) to limit
     the number of affected packages.  (Closes: #795193)
 .
   [ Paul Tagliamonte ]
   * dh_gencontrol: Put debug debs back in the "debug" section.
   * dh_strip/dh_gencontrol: Add a space separated list of
     build-ids in the control file of packages containing
     deattached debug symbols.
 .
   [ Andrew Ayer ]
   * d/control: Depend on dh-strip-nondeterminism
   * dh: Call dh_strip_nondeterminism during build.
     (Closes: #759895)
 .
   [ Colin Watson ]
   * Buildsystem.pm: Fix doit_in_sourcedir/doit_in_builddir to
     always chdir back to the original directory even if the
     subprocess exits non-zero.  (Closes: #798116)
 .
   [ Translations ]
   * Update Portuguese translation (Américo Monteiro)
     (Closes: #790820)
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