debian/package.files
Lists the files to be moved into a package, separated by whitespace. The filenames listed should be relative to debian/tmp/. You can also list directory names, and the whole directory will be moved.
dh_movefiles1
Move files out of debian/tmp into subpackages
Usage
dh_movefiles [debhelper
options]
[--sourcedir=dir]
[-Xitem]
[file ...]
Overview
dh_movefiles is a debhelper program that is responsible for moving files out of debian/tmp or some other directory and into other package build directories. This may be useful if your package has a Makefile that installs everything into debian/tmp, and you need to break that up into subpackages.
Note: dh_install is a much better program, and you are recommended to use it instead of dh_movefiles.
Files
Options
-
--sourcedir=dir -
Instead of moving files out of debian/tmp (the default), this option makes it move files out of some other directory. Since the entire contents of the sourcedir is moved, specifying something like
--sourcedir=/is very unsafe, so to prevent mistakes, the sourcedir must be a relative filename; it cannot begin with a `/'.
-
-Xitem, --exclude=item -
Exclude files that contain
itemanywhere in their filename from being installed.
- file ...
-
Lists files to move. The filenames listed should be relative to debian/tmp/. You can also list directory names, and the whole directory will be moved. It is an error to list files here unless you use
-p,-i, or-ato telldh_movefileswhich subpackage to put them in.
Notes
Note that files are always moved out of debian/tmp by default (even if you have instructed debhelper to use a compatibility level higher than one, which does not otherwise use debian/tmp for anything at all). The idea behind this is that the package that is being built can be told to install into debian/tmp, and then files can be moved by dh_movefiles from that directory. Any files or directories that remain are ignored, and get deleted by dh_clean later.
Releases
15 releases since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); the text changed 14 times.
--exclude since Debian 3.1 (Sarge);
--sourcedir since Debian 2.2 (Potato);
-Xitem since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).
--arch until Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
--indep until Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
--no-act until Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
--package until Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
--tmpdir until Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
--verbose until Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
-Ptmpdir until Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
-a until Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
-i until Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
-ppackage until Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
-v until Debian 2.0 (Hamm).