dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 3ebf2f4a..fd780c8c 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+debhelper (7.2.22) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
+    is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
+    from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:05:26 -0400
+
 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
diff --git a/dh_install b/dh_install
index 2a5a5911..eb196e5c 100755
--- a/dh_install
+++ b/dh_install
@@ -166,7 +166,8 @@ foreach my $package (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
 			if (! defined $dest) {
 				# Guess at destination directory.
 				$dest=$src;
-				$dest=~s/^(.*\/)?(\Q$srcdir\E|debian\/tmp)\///;
+				$dest=~s/^(.*\/)?\Q$srcdir\E\/// ||
+					$dest=~s/^(.*\/)?debian\/tmp\///;
 				$dest=dirname("/".$dest);
 				$tmpdest=1;
 			}