dh_installdocs – install documentation into package build directories Synopsisdh_installdocs [debhelper options] [-A] [-Xitem] [file …] Descriptiondh_installdocs is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing documentation into usr/share/doc/package in package build directories. In compat 10 and earlier, dh_install(1) may be a better tool for handling the upstream documentation, when upstream’s own build system installs all the desired…
dh_installdirs – create subdirectories in package build directories Synopsisdh_installdirs [debhelper options] [-A] [dir …] Descriptiondh_installdirs is a debhelper program that is responsible for creating subdirectories in package build directories. Many packages can get away with omitting the call to dh_installdirs completely. Notably, other dh_* commands are expected to create directories as needed. Filesdebian/package.dirs Lists directories to be…
dh_installdebconf – install files used by debconf in package build directories Synopsisdh_installdebconf [debhelper options] [-n] [— params] Descriptiondh_installdebconf is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files used by debconf into package build directories. It also automatically generates the postrm commands needed to interface with debconf. The commands are added to the maintainer scripts by dh_installdeb….
dh_installdeb – install files into the DEBIAN directory Synopsisdh_installdeb [debhelper options] Descriptiondh_installdeb is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files into the DEBIAN directories in package build directories with the correct permissions. Filespackage.postinst package.preinst package.postrm package.prerm These maintainer scripts are installed into the DEBIAN directory. Inside the scripts, the token #DEBHELPER# is replaced with…
dh_installcron – install cron scripts into etc/cron.* Synopsisdh_installcron [debhelper options] [–name=name] Descriptiondh_installcron is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing cron scripts. Filesdebian/package.cron.daily debian/package.cron.weekly debian/package.cron.monthly debian/package.cron.hourly debian/package.cron.d Installed into the appropriate etc/cron.*/ directory in the package build directory.Options–name=name Look for files named debian/package.name.cron.* and install them as etc/cron.*/name, instead of using the usual files and…
dh_installchangelogs – install changelogs into package build directories Synopsisdh_installchangelogs [debhelper options] [-k] [-Xitem] [upstream] Descriptiondh_installchangelogs is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing changelogs into package build directories. An upstream changelog file may be specified as an option. If there is an upstream changelog file, it will be installed as usr/share/doc/package/changelog in the package build…
dh_installcatalogs – install and register SGML Catalogs Synopsisdh_installcatalogs [debhelper options] [-n] Descriptiondh_installcatalogs is a debhelper program that installs and registers SGML catalogs. It complies with the Debian XML/SGML policy. Catalogs will be registered in a supercatalog, in /etc/sgml/package.cat. This command automatically adds maintainer script snippets for registering and unregistering the catalogs and supercatalogs (unless -n is…
dh_install – install files into package build directories Synopsisdh_install [-Xitem] [–autodest] [–sourcedir=dir] [debhelper options] [file|dir … destdir] Descriptiondh_install is a debhelper program that handles installing files into package build directories. There are many dh_install* commands that handle installing specific types of files such as documentation, examples, man pages, and so on, and they should be used when possible…
dh_icons – Update caches of Freedesktop icons Synopsisdh_icons [debhelper options] [-n] Descriptiondh_icons is a debhelper program that updates caches of Freedesktop icons when needed, using the update-icon-caches program provided by GTK+2.12. Currently this program does not handle installation of the files, though it may do so at a later date, so should be run after icons…
dh_gtkmodules – create Gtk module files for Gtk modules Synopsisdh_gtkmodules [debhelper options] Descriptiondh_gtkmodules is a debhelper program that handles correctly generating a dependency on the versionned Gtk+ module ABI and indexes for GdkPixbuf loaders and IM modules that it finds in the Gtk+ module directories. This command automatically adds a “<package>.loaders” file to the current…
dh_gencontrol – generate and install control file Synopsisdh_gencontrol [debhelper options] [— params] Descriptiondh_gencontrol is a debhelper program that is responsible for generating control files, and installing them into the DEBIAN directory with the proper permissions. This program is merely a wrapper around dpkg-gencontrol(1), which calls it once for each package being acted on (plus related dbgsym packages),…
dh_gconf – install GConf defaults files and register schemas Synopsisdh_gconf [debhelper options] [–priority=priority] Descriptiondh_gconf is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing GConf defaults files and registering GConf schemas. An appropriate dependency on gconf2 will be generated in ${misc:Depends}. Filesdebian/package.gconf-defaults Installed into usr/share/gconf/defaults/10_package in the package build directory, with package replaced by the package name….
dh_fixperms – fix permissions of files in package build directories Synopsisdh_fixperms [debhelper options] [-Xitem] Descriptiondh_fixperms is a debhelper program that is responsible for setting the permissions of files and directories in package build directories to a sane state — a state that complies with Debian policy. dh_fixperms makes all files in usr/share/doc in the package build…
dh_dwz – optimize DWARF debug information in ELF binaries via dwz Synopsisdh_dwz [debhelper options] [-Xitem] [— params] DescriptionCaveat: This tool is experimental and may disappear or change behaviour without any notice. dh_dwz is a debhelper program that will optimize the (uncompressed) size of the DWARF debug information in ELF binaries. It does so by running dwz(1) on…
dh_doxygen – helps with packaging doxygen-generated documentation Synopsisdh_doxygen [debhelper options] [-Xitem] [directory…] Descriptiondh_doxygen is a debhelper program that prepares doxygen-generated documentation for inclusion in a Debian package. More specifically: • It removes *.md5 and *.map files. These are created by doxygen to speed up incremental runs.Optionsdirectory By default, dh_doxygen scans your package looking for directories…
dh_dkms – correctly handle DKMS usage by a kernel module package Synopsisdh_dkms [debhelper options] [-l] [-V[version]] [— file] Descriptiondh_dkms is a debhelper program that is responsible for correctly setting postinst, postrm and dependencies in kernel module packages using DKMS. If a file named debian/package.dkms exists, then different actions are performed, depending on its contents. Filesdebian/package.dkms debian/dkms…
dh_desktop – deprecated no-op Synopsisdh_desktop [debhelper options] Descriptiondh_desktop was a debhelper program that registers .desktop files. However, it no longer does anything, and is now deprecated. If a package ships desktop files, they just need to be installed in the correct location (/usr/share/applications) and they will be registered by the appropriate tools for the corresponding…
dh_compress – compress files and fix symlinks in package build directories Synopsisdh_compress [debhelper options] [-Xitem] [-A] [file …] Descriptiondh_compress is a debhelper program that is responsible for compressing the files in package build directories, and makes sure that any symlinks that pointed to the files before they were compressed are updated to point to the new files….
dh_clean – clean up package build directories Synopsisdh_clean [debhelper options] [-k] [-d] [-Xitem] [path …] Descriptiondh_clean is a debhelper program that is responsible for cleaning up after a package is built. It removes the package build directories, and removes some other files including debian/files, and any detritus left behind by other debhelper commands. It also removes common…
dh_builddeb – build Debian binary packages Synopsisdh_builddeb [debhelper options] [–destdir=directory] [–filename=name] [— params] Descriptiondh_builddeb simply calls dpkg-deb(1) to build a Debian package or packages. It will also build dbgsym packages when dh_strip(1) and dh_gencontrol(1) have prepared them. It supports building multiple binary packages in parallel, when enabled by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. When the Rules-Requires-Root field is not (effectively) binary-targets,…