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| author | Joey Hess <joey@kodama.kitenet.net> | 2008-06-25 03:36:50 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kodama.kitenet.net> | 2008-06-25 03:36:50 -0400 |
| commit | 63236db51d15d0e104c06f334e00c461d81dcbd9 (patch) | |
| tree | e8af3079c55c531f0b0973bb86fa11b4da954008 /dh_install | |
| parent | 070f2212b29ee3370bf1627354666b602077b63d (diff) | |
Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode
* Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
* Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
Diffstat (limited to 'dh_install')
| -rwxr-xr-x | dh_install | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -40,9 +40,9 @@ package that builds multiple binary packages. You can use the upstream Makefile to install it all into debian/tmp, and then use dh_install to copy directories and files from there into the proper package build directories. -From debhelper compatibility level 7 on, if --sourcedir is not specified, -dh_install will install files from debian/tmp if the directory contains the -files. Otherwise, it will install files from the current directory. +From debhelper compatibility level 7 on, dh_install will fall back to +looking in debian/tmp for files, if it doesn't find them in the current +directory (or whereever you've told it to look using --srcdir). =head1 OPTIONS |