Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME dh_testroot – ensure that a package is built with necessary level of root permissions SYNOPSIS dh_testroot [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_testroot is used to determine if the package has access to at least the level of root access that it declared it needed via the Rules-Requires-Root (R³) field. The following is how dh_testroot behaves based on…
NAME dh_testdir – test directory before building Debian package SYNOPSIS dh_testdir [debhelper options] [file …] DESCRIPTION dh_testdir tries to make sure that you are in the correct directory when building a Debian package. It makes sure that the file debian/control exists, as well as any other files you specify. If not, it exits with an error. OPTIONS…
NAME dh_systemd_start – start/stop/restart systemd unit files SYNOPSIS dh_systemd_start [debhelper options] [–restart-after-upgrade] [–no-stop-on-upgrade] [unit file …] DESCRIPTION dh_systemd_start is a debhelper program that is responsible for starting/stopping or restarting systemd unit files in case no corresponding sysv init script is available. As with dh_installinit, the unit file is stopped before upgrades and started afterwards (unless –restart-after-upgrade is specified,…
NAME dh_systemd_enable – enable/disable systemd unit files SYNOPSIS dh_systemd_enable [debhelper options] [–no-enable] [–name=name] [unit file …] DESCRIPTION dh_systemd_enable is a debhelper program that is responsible for enabling and disabling systemd unit files. In the simple case, it finds all unit files installed by a package (e.g. bacula-fd.service) and enables them. It is not necessary that the machine actually…
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…