Re: dh_install by file suffix

[Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@wrar.name>]

On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 09:01:19PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am upgrading one of my packages (iraf) to a new version. The new version
> comes with a "make install", which installs everything under /usr/lib/iraf/
> (and some other places).
> 
> The "iraf" source package needs to divide these files into user related
> files (for the "iraf" and "iraf-noao" packages) and development related
> files (for "iraf-dev" and "iraf-noao-dev"). The problem is now, that the
> division is (mainly) by extension:
> 
> - *.cl, *.hd, *.men, *.par (... and some other extensions) should go to
>   the user packages
> 
> - *.a, *.h should go to the development packages
> 
> (the "iraf" and "iraf-noao" package differ mainly by that "iraf" collects
> them in the pkg/ subdir, and "iraf-noao" in the noao subdir).
> 
> The main question here is: how can I do a dh_install selective by file
> suffix? Otherwise, I would need to list the (~1000) files in the "install"
> files, which is not very robust.
You can always skip dh_install and do manual cp/mv/install/whatever
commands in override_dh_install.
Or you could probably use dh-exec.