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DH_MISSING(1) Debhelper DH_MISSING(1)
dh_missing - check for missing files
dh_missing [-Xitem] [--sourcedir=dir] [debhelper options]
dh_missing compares the list of installed files with the files in
the source directory. If any of the files (and symlinks) in the
source directory were not installed to somewhere, it will warn on
stderr about that (--list-missing) or fail (--fail-missing).
Please note that in compat 11 and earlier without either of these
options, dh_missing will silently do nothing. In compat 12,
--list-missing is the default In compat 13 and later,
--fail-missing is the default.
This may be useful if you have a large package and want to make
sure that you don't miss installing newly added files in new
upstream releases.
Remember to test different kinds of builds (dpkg-buildpackage
-A/-B/...) as you may experience varying results when only a
subset of the packages are built.
debian/not-installed
List the files that are deliberately not installed in any
binary package. Paths listed in this file are ignored by
dh_missing. However, it is not a method to exclude files from
being installed by any of the debhelper tool. If you want a
tool to not install a given file, please use its --exclude
option (where available).
dh_missing will expand wildcards in this file (since debhelper
11.1). Wildcards without matches will be ignored.
Supports substitution variables in compat 13 and later as
documented in debhelper(7).
--list-missing
Warn on stderr about source files not installed to somewhere.
Note that many dh-tools acting on a path will mark the path as
installed even if it has been excluded via -X or --exclude.
This is also seen when a dh-tool is acting on a directory and
exclusion is used to ignore some files in the directory. In
either case, this will make dh_missing silently assume the
excluded files have been handled.
This is the default in compat 12.
--fail-missing
This option is like --list-missing, except if a file was
missed, it will not only list the missing files, but also fail
with a nonzero exit code.
This is the default in compat 13 and later.
debhelper(7)
This program is a part of debhelper.
Michael Stapelberg <[email protected]>
This page is part of the debhelper (helper programs for
debian/rules) project. Information about the project can be found
at [unknown -- if you know, please contact [email protected]] If
you have a bug report for this manual page, send it to
[email protected]. This page was obtained from the project's
upstream Git repository
⟨https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelper.git⟩ on 2025-08-11.
(At that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found
in the repository was 2025-08-10.) If you discover any rendering
problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
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(which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
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13.15.3 2024-06-07 DH_MISSING(1)
Pages that refer to this page: dh_assistant(1), dh_install(1), debhelper(7)
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