Generate install list during package build?

[Mike Purvis <mike@uwmike.com>]

Hey all,

I have a large DSC that aggregates sources from many repos (dozens),
does a single big CMake-based build, and currently produces two debs,
bigpackage-dev (the "include" path), and bigpackage (everything else).

I'd like to partition the resulting workspace into more pieces, but
the only way to do so would be to generate the the lists of install
files/paths as one of the outputs from the build itself. I assume this
is not possible, since bigpackage.install and bigpackage-dev.install
are part of the debian metadata archive and therefore locked down at
dsc creation time. My reading of the control files documentation seems
to support this view.

But you never know, so I thought I'd ask just in case it is somehow
possible. (The solution I'm hoping for will not require me doing a
pre-build just to generate install lists...)

Thanks,

Mike