[debhelper-devel] Bug#415396: "dh_install --list-missing" should ignore manpages and other installed files

[Michael Stapelberg]

[+cc Niels, who might have an idea as to how to fix this]

Hi Drew,

I’m facing the same issue in one of my packages.

Drew Parsons <dparsons at debian.org> writes:
> At the moment dh_install --list-missing complains about any file in
> debian/tmp not listed in the install file.  This includes manpages,
> even if they are listed in their own manpages file to be installed by
> dh_installman.

For completeness: this issue also includes documentation pages installed
by dh_installdocs, and, I assume, any other dh_install* command.

The fact that this bug is now almost 10 years old implies that the issue
is not very easy to fix (or people don’t care).

Could we make the dh_install* helpers log the files which they install
and then move dh_install to the end of the dh sequence so that it can
read in all of the files which the other helpers installed?

-- 
Best regards,
Michael