Bug#826734: mh_install doesn't work with dh-exec

[Ondřej Surý]

Package: maven-repo-helper
Version: 1.8.12
Severity: normal

Dear maintainer(s),

I have recently helped with zeroc-ice packaging and the debian/*.poms
contains an upstream version number, so it would be very convenient if
dh-exec would work, so I could dynamically replace ${VERSION} at the
build time.

Unfortunately the build breaks as it looks like mh_install is not
using standard debhelper mechanisms to access the files:

14:39 < algernon> ondrej: hm, perhaps mh_install is doing its own
magic, and doesn't go through debhelpers thing that makes executable
files work :/ │

Could you perhaps work with dh-exec maintainer to resolve this?

Cheers,
Ondrej

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)