Re: Does debhelper prune empty directories?

[Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net>]

On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, Scott Talbert wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm working on a package where I have a directory tree listed in the 
> 'install' file with a destination directory.  This source directory tree has 
> a few empty subdirectories in it.  Somehow during the build process, these 
> empty subdirectories are disappearing.  Does debhelper prune empty 
> subdirectories?  If so, is there a way to avoid that?
>
> What's strange is that this only seems to be happening in the main package. 
> I have a subpackage which does a similar operation, but it's empty 
> directories seem to be preserved.

I have narrowed it down - it seems to be dh_python2 that is removing the 
empty directories.  Perhaps I should take my question to debian-python.

Scott