Re: dh_install not finding files from orig source

To: Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>
Cc: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: dh_install not finding files from orig source
From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:06:48 -0400
Message-id: <20080625150648.GA30697@kodama.kitenet.net>
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Ben Finney wrote:
> Why, then, is it exiting with a "No such file or directory" error
> trying to read the file from 'debian/tmp'?

Because of implementation details. It's easiest to check if the source
is in . , and if not stuff the path in debian/tmp into the list of
things to install, which later fails if it's not present.

-- 
see shy jo

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