Bug#471869: [new check] order of dh_* calls
Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Severity: wishlist
>
> I ran into a bug in libspf, where dh_makeshlibs was called *after*
> dh_installdeb.
>
> Would lintian be a good place to test that dh_* scripts are called in a
> coherent order?
Yes, definitely. checks/rules should be able to help with that. Another
common mistake is to call dh_strip before dh_fixperms; strip fails on
non-writable files, such as the default installation mode of Perl modules.
A third is to call dh_shlibdeps before dh_makeshlibs.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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