Re: debhelper 7, installchangelogs, renames (was: [RFS] python-lockfile 0.7-2)

[Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>]

On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:29:47AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> But how can I tell ‘dh_installchangelogs’ the name of this file, with
> an elegant mechanism like the ‘debian/docs’ configuration file for
> ‘dh_installdocs’? It would be a shame if I have to actually invoke
> ‘dh_installchangelogs’ explicitly in the ‘install’ target, because
> that leads to:
> 
>     install:
>         dh install --until installchangelogs
>         dh_installchangelogs FOOFILE
>         dh install --remaining
> 
> Not terrible, but it does rather detract from the simplicity of the
> rest of the rules. Is there a better way?
With debhelper (>= 7.0.50) you can add this to debian/rules:

override_dh_installchangelogs:
	dh_installchangelogs RELEASE-NOTES

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