Am Samstag, den 04.06.2011, 20:46 +0200 schrieb Zygmunt Krynicki: > The new script can be called instead of dh_install (assuming all the > files you are interested in are already in debian/tmp/) or afterwards. I looked at the man page of dh_splitpackage and compared it to "dh_install --fail-missing". I found three differences. Please let me know if there were more. 1. dh_splitpackage complains if a file ends up in more than one binary package. Having the same file in two binary package leads to a conflict if you want to install both binary packages. IMO dh_install should do this check too. 2. dh_splitpackage put files in the primary package if no other install destination is specified. I would love to see a command line option for dh_install that does the same. For example, I want to call "dh_install --put-everything-else-in=vlc-nox" for the daily builds of vlc. 3. dh_splitpackage supports more pattern than dh_install. To name them: ** for matching all directories, [] to match as specific set of characters. I could live without that, but ** would be nice sometimes. I think that dh_install could be improved to support all three points above. The features of dh_splitpackage are great, but the configuration format (JSON) seems to be too complex for this use case. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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