dh_install --exclude flag not working

[Talat Batheesh]

dh_install failed to build a infinibad-diags and we see the following error.
in older releases ub14.04 and 12.04 it is working as well.
With 16.04 this tool failed with the exclude flag.

dh_install --exclude <SOMETHING> does not exclude files that has SOMETHING in their names when file list is provided in debian/<package>.files

dh_install --exclude=ndd
dh_install: infiniband-diags missing files: usr/sbin/rdma-ndd
dh_install: infiniband-diags missing files: usr/share/man/man8/rdma-ndd.8
dh_install: infiniband-diags missing files: etc/init.d/rdma-ndd
dh_install: missing files, aborting
debian/rules:40: recipe for target 'binary' failed

# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="16.04 (Xenial Xerus)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04"
VERSION_ID="16.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial

# uname -r
4.4.0-11-generic

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package debhelper - 10.10.9ubuntu1

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debhelper (10.10.9ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Merge from current Debian unstable. Remaining changes:
    - Generate ddebs from debhelper instead of pkg-create-dbgsym
      + Make debhelper Conflict/Replace pkg-create-dbgsym to force it off.
      + Set DBGSYM_PACKAGE_TYPE to ddeb to get correct debian/files output.
    - dh_installchangelogs: Do not install upstream changelog in compat
      level 7 and higher to avoid pointlessly bloating installed packages.

debhelper (10.10.9) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Dmitry Shachnev ]
  * qmake.pm: Add missing import of generated_file.
  * meson.pm: Find typo of meson in the name of the cross config
    file.
  * qmake.pm: Push compiler information as ‘early’ flags to qmake, to
    make sure qmake calls the right compiler to get library paths.
  * qmake.pm: Add all possible settings to generated qmake-cross.conf.
    Now output of ‘qmake -query’ with and without using this file is
    identical. This makes cross-building Qt’s own modules possible.

  [ Niels Thykier ]
  * dh_missing: Permit a missing debian/tmp without failing in
    compat 11 when debian/tmp is an implicit source directory.
    Thanks to Christoph Biedl for reporting the bug.
    (Closes: #882083)
  * dh_missing: Improve the wording about "debian/not-installed".

 -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden> Tue, 21 Nov 2017 14:26:40 -0700