Bug#858860: RFS: arpwatch [ITA]

[Lukas Schwaighofer]

Hi Christian,

On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 14:30:24 +0200
Christian Seiler <christian at iwakd.de> wrote:
> The problem is that dirs is only interpreted by dh_installdirs, which
> is typically run after dh_auto_install, so that wouldn't actually
> solve your problem.

It does solve the problem (i.e. the error is gone if `usr/sbin` is
present in the `dirs` file).  According to the Debian New Maintainers'
Guide guide, creating directories that are not created by
`make install DESTDIR=...` as invoked by dh_auto_install is exactly
what the dirs file is for [1].

Also, running `dh binary --no-act` in the arpwatch packaging dir yields:
$ dh binary --no-act
   (...)
   dh_installdirs
   dh_auto_install
   (...)


Can you explain in which situations dh_installdirs will be run after
dh_auto_install? 

I'd like to avoid messing with the upstream build system more than
required.  If dh_installdirs isn't the correct approach, maybe I can
create an override_dh_auto_install target and create the directory
there before calling dh_auto_install…?

Thanks
Lukas

[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#dirs
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