Re: dh_install globbing

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@gnu.org>, 2016-05-30, 18:27:
> I want dh_install to install according following globbing:
>
> 	src/doc/*[a-z].html /usr/share/doc/runit/html
>
> (There is also html pages in form foo.1.html, which duplicate man 
> pages. I do not want to install them.)
>
> But it does not work -- nothing is installed. dh_install(1) does not 
> specify glob rules, but plain star (src/doc/*.html) works.

The rules are documented in debhelper(1) manpage: “you can use standard 
shell wildcard characters (? and * and [..] character classes) in the 
[config] files”.

Even if [] wasn't supported, in compat >=5 dh_install is supposed to 
fail if wildcard expands to nothing.

Can you show us the source package, so that we can see what's going on?

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Jakub Wilk