[debhelper-devel] Bug#867246: dh_installman incorrectly optimized away when using --fail-missing and building arch-any packages only

[Niels Thykier]

Control: tags -1 patch

On Wed, 05 Jul 2017 08:18:49 +0200 Michael Stapelberg
<stapelberg at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: debhelper
> Version: 10.6.1
> Severity: normal
> 
> See [1] for an example: commit [2] switched to dh_missing --fail-missing, which
> works when building arch:all packages as well, but fails when building
> architecture-dependent packages only (such as the buildds do).
> 
> This can be worked around by adding an override like so:
> 
> override_dh_installman:
> 	dh_installman
> 
> ① https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-freeradius/freeradius.git/tree/?id=feb85356a8e3f8931cf423ff215eaa54baa5dd03
> ② https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-freeradius/freeradius.git/commit/?id=e3bdeee6e138f34f16ab500c04cf358ca6a3b17f
> 
> [...]

Hi,

I have created a prototype branch that hopefully solves this issue.

It is available from the bug-867246-dh-optimize-logging-helpers
branch[1].  Please feel free to give this a spin and see if it fixes
your issue.

Thanks,
~Niels

[1]
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debhelper/debhelper.git/log/?h=bug-867246-dh-optimize-logging-helpers