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| author | Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> | 2015-09-20 19:04:13 +0200 |
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| committer | Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> | 2015-09-20 19:04:23 +0200 |
| commit | 0df8fdb046add9ddd72a7fbfd2d36fc949b1faa8 (patch) | |
| tree | 3a23470e355d75d071537fc37c8e0d1741feb4e9 | |
| parent | 10aa93aa5dfae31fc09371f397fc6d4bd7937cf2 (diff) | |
| download | debhelper-0df8fdb046add9ddd72a7fbfd2d36fc949b1faa8.tar.gz | |
dh_installdirs.1: Document that it can often be omitted
Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 2 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | dh_installdirs | 8 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 0201d680..bdceb0e2 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ debhelper (9.20150811+unreleased) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium --max-parallel=1 but may be more intuative to some people. * dh_makeshlibs: Use a noawait trigger to invoke ldconfig rather maintscripts. + * dh_installdirs.1: Add a note that many packages will work + fine without calling dh_installdirs. (Closes: #748993) [ Paul Tagliamonte ] * dh_gencontrol: Put debug debs back in the "debug" section. diff --git a/dh_installdirs b/dh_installdirs index 6797458f..dc4999e5 100755 --- a/dh_installdirs +++ b/dh_installdirs @@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ B<dh_installdirs> [S<I<debhelper options>>] [B<-A>] [S<I<dir> ...>] B<dh_installdirs> is a debhelper program that is responsible for creating subdirectories in package build directories. +Many packages can get away with omitting the call to B<dh_installdirs> +completely. Notably, other B<dh_*> commands are expected to create +directories as needed. + =head1 FILES =over 4 @@ -27,6 +31,10 @@ subdirectories in package build directories. Lists directories to be created in I<package>. +Generally, there is not need to list directories created by the +upstream build system or directories needed by other B<debhelper> +commands. + =back =head1 OPTIONS |