1DH_MOVEFILES(1)                    Debhelper                   DH_MOVEFILES(1)
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NAME

6       dh_movefiles - move files out of debian/tmp into subpackages
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SYNOPSIS

9       dh_movefiles [debhelper options] [--sourcedir=dir] [-Xitem] [file ...]
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DESCRIPTION

12       dh_movefiles is a debhelper program that is responsible for moving
13       files out of debian/tmp or some other directory and into other package
14       build directories. This may be useful if your package has a Makefile
15       that installs everything into debian/tmp, and you need to break that up
16       into subpackages.
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18       Note: dh_install is a much better program, and you are recommended to
19       use it instead of dh_movefiles.
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FILES

22       debian/package.files
23           Lists the files to be moved into a package, separated by
24           whitespace. The filenames listed should be relative to debian/tmp/.
25           You can also list directory names, and the whole directory will be
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OPTIONS

29       --sourcedir=dir
30           Instead of moving files out of debian/tmp (the default), this
31           option makes it move files out of some other directory. Since the
32           entire contents of the sourcedir is moved, specifying something
33           like --sourcedir=/ is very unsafe, so to prevent mistakes, the
34           sourcedir must be a relative filename; it cannot begin with a `/'.
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36       -Xitem, --exclude=item
37           Exclude files that contain item anywhere in their filename from
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40       file ...
41           Lists files to move. The filenames listed should be relative to
42           debian/tmp/. You can also list directory names, and the whole
43           directory will be moved. It is an error to list files here unless
44           you use -p, -i, or -a to tell dh_movefiles which subpackage to put
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NOTES

48       Note that files are always moved out of debian/tmp by default (even if
49       you have instructed debhelper to use a compatibility level higher than
50       one, which does not otherwise use debian/tmp for anything at all). The
51       idea behind this is that the package that is being built can be told to
52       install into debian/tmp, and then files can be moved by dh_movefiles
53       from that directory. Any files or directories that remain are ignored,
54       and get deleted by dh_clean later.
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SEE ALSO

57       debhelper(7)
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59       This program is a part of debhelper.
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AUTHOR

62       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
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6613.3.4                            2021-05-13                   DH_MOVEFILES(1)
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