Re: Install files with debhelper or make install?

[Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>]

Hallo Don,

Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Mar 2008, Jörg Sommer wrote:
>> Colin Watson announced in dda that dh_installman automatically
>> converts manual pages to UTF‐8 encoding. [1] Installing the manual
>> pages with the upstream make install doesn't profit from this. I
>> came to the question if it is generally better to install all files
>> with debhelper. But than I might miss some files on new releases
>> they upstream installs with his install target. 
>
> That's why you generally fail your build if there are files in tmp
> which do not get installed.

In which of your packages you do so?

Bye, Jörg.
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