NAME dh_suidregister – suid registration program (deprecated) SYNOPSIS Do not run! DESCRIPTION This program used to register suid and sgid files with suidregister(1), but with the introduction of dpkg-statoverride(8), registration of files in this way is unnecessary, and even harmful, so this program is deprecated and should not be used. CONVERTING TO STATOVERRIDE Converting a…
NAME dh_strip – strip executables, shared libraries, and some static libraries SYNOPSIS dh_strip [debhelper options] [-Xitem] [–dbg-package=package] [–keep-debug] DESCRIPTION dh_strip is a debhelper program that is responsible for stripping executables, shared libraries, and static libraries that are not used for debugging. This program examines your package build directories and works out what to strip on its…
NAME dh_shlibdeps – calculate shared library dependencies SYNOPSIS dh_shlibdeps [debhelper options] [-Lpackage] [-ldirectory] [-Xitem] [— params] DESCRIPTION dh_shlibdeps is a debhelper program that is responsible for calculating shared library dependencies for packages. This program is merely a wrapper around dpkg-shlibdeps(1) that calls it once for each package listed in the control file, passing it a list of…
NAME dh_scrollkeeper – deprecated no-op SYNOPSIS dh_scrollkeeper [debhelper options] [-n] [directory] DESCRIPTION dh_scrollkeeper was a debhelper program that handled registering OMF files for ScrollKeeper. However, it no longer does anything, and is now deprecated. SEE ALSO debhelper This program is a part of debhelper. AUTHOR Ross Burton <ross [at] burtonini.com> Index
NAME dh_scour – run scour optimizer on shipped SVG files SYNOPSIS dh_scour [debhelper options] [— params] DESCRIPTION dh_scour is a debhelper program that will run the scour SVG image scrubber on all shipped SVG files. OPTIONS — params Pass “params” to scour(1). By default, no extra arguments are passed. SEE ALSO debhelper AUTHOR Martin Pitt <martin.pitt…
NAME dh_python3 – calculates Python dependencies, adds maintainer scripts to byte compile files, etc. SYNOPSIS dh_python3 -p PACKAGE [-V [X.Y][-][A.B]] DIR [-X REGEXPR] DESCRIPTION QUICK GUIDE FOR MAINTAINERS • if necessary, describe supported Python 3 versions via X-Python3-Version field in debian/control, • build depend on dh-python • build-depend on python3 or python3-all or python3-all-dev, •…
NAME dh_python2 – calculates Python dependencies, adds maintainer scripts to byte compile files, etc. SYNOPSIS dh_python2 -p PACKAGE [-V [X.Y][-][A.B]] DIR_OR_FILE [-X REGEXPR] DESCRIPTION QUICK GUIDE FOR MAINTAINERS • if necessary, describe supported Python versions via X-Python-Version field in debian/control, • build-depend on python or python-all or python-all-dev (>= 2.6.6-3~), • build module/application using its…
NAME dh_pysupport – use the python-support framework to handle Python modules SYNOPSIS dh_pysupport [debhelper options] [-V X.Y] [-X item […]] [-n] [module dirs …] DESCRIPTION dh_pysupport is a debhelper program that will scan your package, detect public modules in /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages, and move them to the shared Python modules location. It will generate appropriate postinst/prerm scripts…
NAME dh_pypy – calculates PyPy dependencies, adds maintainer scripts to byte compile files, etc. SYNOPSIS dh_pypy -p PACKAGE [-V [X.Y][-][A.B]] DIR [-X REGEXPR] DESCRIPTION QUICK GUIDE FOR MAINTAINERS • build-depend on pypy and dh-python, • add ${pypy:Depends} to Depends • build module/application using its standard build system, • install files to the standard locations, •…
NAME dh_pycentral – use the python-central framework to handle Python modules and extensions SYNOPSIS dh_pycentral [debhelper options] [-n] [-Xitem] [-V version] [module dirs …] DESCRIPTION dh_pycentral is a debhelper program that will scan your package, detect public Python modules and move them in /usr/share/pycentral so that python-central can byte-compile those for all supported Python versions….
NAME dh_prep – perform cleanups in preparation for building a binary package SYNOPSIS dh_prep [debhelper options] [-Xitem] DESCRIPTION dh_prep is a debhelper program that performs some file cleanups in preparation for building a binary package. (This is what dh_clean -k used to do.) It removes the package build directories, debian/tmp, and some temp files that are…
NAME dh_perl_openssl – add dependencies required for OpenSSL modules SYNOPSIS dh_perl_openssl [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_perl_openssl is a debhelper program that is responsible for adding a dependency on perl-openssl-abi-* to the ${perl:Depends} substitution variable. Such a dependency is needed for packages that expose the OpenSSL binary interface to Perl code, such as pointers to "SSL_CTX" structs….
NAME dh_perl – calculates Perl dependencies and cleans up after MakeMaker SYNOPSIS dh_perl [debhelper options] [-d] [library dirs …] DESCRIPTION dh_perl is a debhelper program that is responsible for generating the ${perl:Depends} substitutions and adding them to substvars files. The program will look at Perl scripts and modules in your package, and will use this information to generate…
NAME dh_numpy – adds Numpy depends to python:Depends substvar SYNOPSIS dh_numpy [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_numpy adds information about the correct versioned depends on python-numpy to python:Depends substvar. This is needed because some Python extensions require strict versioned depends on python-numpy, and using this helper script is the easiest and most consistent way to get them….
NAME dh_nodejs – set nodejs dependencies SYNOPSIS dh_nodejs [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_nodejs is a debhelper program that is responsible for generating appropriate dependencies on nodejs. The dependency on nodejs will be generated in ${misc:Depends}. SEE ALSO debhelper(7) This program is a part of nodejs-dev. AUTHOR Jonas Smedegaard <dr [at] jones.dk> Index
NAME dh_movefiles – move files out of debian/tmp into subpackages SYNOPSIS dh_movefiles [debhelper options] [–sourcedir=dir] [-Xitem] [file …] DESCRIPTION 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…
NAME dh_missing – check for missing files SYNOPSIS dh_missing [-Xitem] [–sourcedir=dir] [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION 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…
NAME dh_md5sums – generate DEBIAN/md5sums file SYNOPSIS dh_md5sums [debhelper options] [-x] [-Xitem] [–include-conffiles] DESCRIPTION dh_md5sums is a debhelper program that is responsible for generating a DEBIAN/md5sums file, which lists the md5sums of each file in the package. These files are used by dpkg –verify or the debsums(1) program. All files in DEBIAN/ are omitted from the…
NAME dh_makeshlibs – automatically create shlibs file and call dpkg-gensymbols SYNOPSIS dh_makeshlibs [debhelper options] [-mmajor] [-V[dependencies]] [-n] [-Xitem] [— params] DESCRIPTION dh_makeshlibs is a debhelper program that automatically scans for shared libraries, and generates a shlibs file for the libraries it finds. It will also ensure that ldconfig is invoked during install and removal when it finds…
NAME dh_listpackages – list binary packages debhelper will act on SYNOPSIS dh_listpackages [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_listpackages is a debhelper program that outputs a list of all binary packages debhelper commands will act on. If you pass it some options, it will change the list to match the packages other debhelper commands would act on if passed…