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NAME dh_installgsettings – install GSettings overrides and set dependencies SYNOPSIS dh_installgsettings [debhelper options] [–priority=<number>] DESCRIPTION dh_installgsettings is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing GSettings override files and generating appropriate dependencies on the GSettings backend. The dependency on the backend will be generated in ${misc:Depends}. FILES debian/package.gsettings-override Installed into usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/10_package.gschema.override in the package build directory,…

NAME dh_installexamples – install example files into package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_installexamples [debhelper options] [-A] [-Xitem] [file …] DESCRIPTION dh_installexamples is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing examples into usr/share/doc/package/examples in package build directories. From debhelper compatibility level 11 on, dh_install will fall back to looking in debian/tmp for files, if it does not find…

NAME dh_installemacsen – register an Emacs add on package SYNOPSIS dh_installemacsen [debhelper options] [-n] [–priority=n] [–flavor=foo] DESCRIPTION dh_installemacsen is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files used by the Debian emacsen-common package into package build directories. It also automatically generates the preinst postinst and prerm commands needed to register a package as an Emacs…

NAME dh_installdocs – install documentation into package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_installdocs [debhelper options] [-A] [-Xitem] [file …] DESCRIPTION dh_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…

NAME dh_installdirs – create subdirectories in package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_installdirs [debhelper options] [-A] [dir …] DESCRIPTION dh_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. FILES debian/package.dirs…

NAME dh_installdebconf – install files used by debconf in package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_installdebconf [debhelper options] [-n] [— params] DESCRIPTION dh_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…

NAME dh_installdeb – install files into the DEBIAN directory SYNOPSIS dh_installdeb [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_installdeb is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files into the DEBIAN directories in package build directories with the correct permissions. FILES package.postinst package.preinst package.postrm package.prerm These maintainer scripts are installed into the DEBIAN directory. Inside the scripts, the token…

NAME dh_installcron – install cron scripts into etc/cron.* SYNOPSIS dh_installcron [debhelper options] [–name=name] DESCRIPTION dh_installcron is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing cron scripts. FILES debian/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…

NAME dh_installchangelogs – install changelogs into package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_installchangelogs [debhelper options] [-k] [-Xitem] [upstream] DESCRIPTION dh_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…

NAME dh_installcatalogs – install and register SGML Catalogs SYNOPSIS dh_installcatalogs [debhelper options] [-n] DESCRIPTION dh_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…

NAME dh_install – install files into package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_install [-Xitem] [–autodest] [–sourcedir=dir] [debhelper options] [file|dir … destdir] DESCRIPTION dh_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…

NAME dh_icons – Update caches of Freedesktop icons SYNOPSIS dh_icons [debhelper options] [-n] DESCRIPTION dh_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…

NAME dh_gtkmodules – create Gtk module files for Gtk modules SYNOPSIS dh_gtkmodules [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_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…

NAME dh_gencontrol – generate and install control file SYNOPSIS dh_gencontrol [debhelper options] [— params] DESCRIPTION dh_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…

NAME dh_gconf – install GConf defaults files and register schemas SYNOPSIS dh_gconf [debhelper options] [–priority=priority] DESCRIPTION dh_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}. FILES debian/package.gconf-defaults Installed into usr/share/gconf/defaults/10_package in the package build directory, with package replaced…

NAME dh_fixperms – fix permissions of files in package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_fixperms [debhelper options] [-Xitem] DESCRIPTION dh_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…

NAME dh_dwz – optimize DWARF debug information in ELF binaries via dwz SYNOPSIS dh_dwz [debhelper options] [-Xitem] [— params] DESCRIPTION Caveat: 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…

NAME dh_doxygen – helps with packaging doxygen-generated documentation SYNOPSIS dh_doxygen [debhelper options] [-Xitem] [directory…] DESCRIPTION dh_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. OPTIONS directory By default, dh_doxygen scans…

NAME dh_dkms – correctly handle DKMS usage by a kernel module package SYNOPSIS dh_dkms [debhelper options] [-l] [-V[version]] [— file] DESCRIPTION dh_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…

NAME dh_desktop – deprecated no-op SYNOPSIS dh_desktop [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_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…