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Martin Ueding
Asked: 2011-04-06 06:11:34 +0800 CST

Rename a file during install of a Debian package

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I have a python script that I want to package for Debian. I use a debian/install file where I wrote

auto_dice.py /usr/bin/

Linitan then complains about the .py extension (script-with-language-extension).

I then changed it to

auto_dice.py /usr/bin/autodice.py

which causes an error because it interpreted autodice.py as a directory.

How can I do the rename there? I do not want to rename my python script in the sources.

python

2 Answers

  1. From Debian bug 245554 already mentioned:

    this can already be easily solved if you use dh >= 9 and dh-exec. Just make your .install file executable, add #!/usr/bin/dh-exec to the top, and you can use "source => dest", like this:

    #!/usr/bin/dh-exec
debian/default.conf => /etc/my-package/start.conf
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  2. Best Answer

    You cannot rename files using dh_install (via the debian/install). You will need to rename it during the debian/rules "build" target before you get to the dh_install invocation.

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