Bug#626327: please have the manifest-tweaking helpers fail hard on missing targets

[Vincent Fourmond]

Package: javahelper
Version: 0.34
Severity: important

  Hello,

  I've (finally) noticed that the behaviour of cdbs and dh now match
(#621857), and I'm thanksful for that. I had completely forgotten
this, however, and I just uploaded two versions of jsymphonic in a row
because I failed to notice that in the first case the classpath wasn't
updated anymore, as the debian/*.classpath file contained file path
relative to the build directory, and not to the installation
directory.

  Could you please make sure that when a target file isn't found in
the install directories, jh_manifest and jh_classpath fail hard ? This
would lead to plain FTBS instead of problems that may go unnoticed
until run time ?

  Many thanks,

       Vincent

PS: and, yes, if you want, I can come up with a patch.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages javahelper depends on:
ii  bsdmainutils                  8.2.2      collection of more utilities from 
ii  dctrl-tools                   2.18       Command-line tools to process Debi
ii  debhelper                     8.1.6      helper programs for debian/rules
ii  devscripts                    2.10.73    scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.16.0.3   Debian package development tools
ii  libarchive-zip-perl           1.30-4     Perl module for manipulation of ZI

javahelper recommends no packages.

Versions of packages javahelper suggests:
ii  cvs                     2:1.12.13+real-4 Concurrent Versions System
ii  gawk                    1:3.1.7.dfsg-5   GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
pn  tofrodos                <none>           (no description available)

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