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Re: Problem with dpkg-shlibdeps



> George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net> writes:
> > dh sequencer also calls dh_installdebconf earlier in the call sequence
> > (which Frank's rules was actually missing), which takes care to create
> > debian/pkg/DEBIAN/ directory. So, when dh_makeshlibs and dh_shlibdeps
> > enter the scene, we have valid package directories, as far as
> > dpkg-shlibdeps is concerned.
>
> Oh, hey, look at that.  And it does so unconditionally, whether the
> package uses debconf or not.
>
> I think this is working rather more by accident than would ideally be
> the case.  I think I'll file a bug against debhelper pointing that out.

Fair enough, though it could be avoided with a `void' statement like:

override_dh_installdebconf:
             # nothing here

which would of course trigger the warning Frank reported in the first place.

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