Section 1: user commands and tools
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…
NAME dh_compress – compress files and fix symlinks in package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_compress [debhelper options] [-Xitem] [-A] [file …] DESCRIPTION dh_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…
NAME dh_clean – clean up package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_clean [debhelper options] [-k] [-d] [-Xitem] [path …] DESCRIPTION dh_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…
NAME dh_builddeb – build Debian binary packages SYNOPSIS dh_builddeb [debhelper options] [–destdir=directory] [–filename=name] [— params] DESCRIPTION dh_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…
NAME dh_bugfiles – install bug reporting customization files into package build directories SYNOPSIS dh_bugfiles [-A] [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_bugfiles is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing bug reporting customization files (bug scripts and/or bug control files and/or presubj files) into package build directories. FILES debian/package.bug-script This is the script to be run by the…
NAME dh_bash-completion – install bash completions for package SYNOPSIS dh_bash-completion [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_bash-completion is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing completions for bash, usable installing the “bash-completion” package. If a file named debian/package.bash-completion exists, then different actions are performed, depending on its format. It can be a proper completion snippet, and in…
NAME dh_autotools-dev_updateconfig – update config.sub and config.guess SYNOPSIS dh_autotools-dev_updateconfig [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION Deprecated: dh_autotools-dev_updateconfig and dh_autotools-dev_restoreconfig are deprecated and replaced by dh_update_autotools_config(1) and dh_clean(1) from debhelper. Please replace all uses of dh_autotools-dev_updateconfig with dh_update_autotools_config and then remove any use of dh_autotools-dev_restoreconfig. dh_autotools-dev_updateconfig replaces all occurrences of config.sub and config.guess in the source tree by the…
NAME dh_autotools-dev_restoreconfig – restore config.sub and config.guess SYNOPSIS dh_autotools-dev_restoreconfig [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION Deprecated: dh_autotools-dev_updateconfig and dh_autotools-dev_restoreconfig are deprecated and replaced by dh_update_autotools_config(1) and dh_clean(1) from debhelper. Please replace all uses of dh_autotools-dev_updateconfig with dh_update_autotools_config and then remove any use of dh_autotools-dev_restoreconfig. dh_autotools-dev_restoreconfig restores the original config.sub and config.guess files that have been backed up by…
NAME dh_autoreconf_clean – Clean all changes made by dh_autoreconf SYNOPSIS dh_autoreconf_clean [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_autoreconf_clean removes all files which have been created or changed during the autoreconf call executed by dh_autoreconf(1). It also reverts any ltmain.sh patch applied by dh_autoreconf. SEE ALSO debhelper(7), dh_autoreconf(1), dh-autoreconf(7) AUTHOR Julian Andres Klode <jak [at] debian.org> Index
NAME dh_autoreconf – Call autoreconf -f -i and keep track of the changed files. SYNOPSIS dh_autoreconf [debhelper options] [-Xitem] [–mode=mode] [program — params] DESCRIPTION dh_autoreconf is responsible for calling autoreconf and creating the files debian/autoreconf.before and debian/autoreconf.after which contain checksums of all files before/after the build. It is complemented by dh_autoreconf_clean which creates a list of all…
NAME dh_auto_test – automatically runs a package’s test suites SYNOPSIS dh_auto_test [build system options] [debhelper options] [— params] DESCRIPTION dh_auto_test is a debhelper program that tries to automatically run a package’s test suite. It does so by running the appropriate command for the build system it detects the package uses. For example, if there’s a Makefile and it contains…
NAME dh_auto_install – automatically runs make install or similar SYNOPSIS dh_auto_install [build system options] [debhelper options] [— params] DESCRIPTION dh_auto_install is a debhelper program that tries to automatically install built files. It does so by running the appropriate command for the build system it detects the package uses. For example, if there’s a Makefile and it contains a install…
NAME dh_auto_configure – automatically configure a package prior to building SYNOPSIS dh_auto_configure [build system options] [debhelper options] [— params] DESCRIPTION dh_auto_configure is a debhelper program that tries to automatically configure a package prior to building. It does so by running the appropriate command for the build system it detects the package uses. For example, it looks for and runs…
NAME dh_auto_clean – automatically cleans up after a build SYNOPSIS dh_auto_clean [build system options] [debhelper options] [— params] DESCRIPTION dh_auto_clean is a debhelper program that tries to automatically clean up after a package build. It does so by running the appropriate command for the build system it detects the package uses. For example, if there’s a Makefile and it…
NAME dh_auto_build – automatically builds a package SYNOPSIS dh_auto_build [build system options] [debhelper options] [— params] DESCRIPTION dh_auto_build is a debhelper program that tries to automatically build a package. It does so by running the appropriate command for the build system it detects the package uses. For example, if a Makefile is found, this is done by running make…
NAME dh – debhelper command sequencer SYNOPSIS dh sequence [–with addon[,addon …]] [–list] [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh runs a sequence of debhelper commands. The supported sequences correspond to the targets of a debian/rules file: build-arch, build-indep, build, clean, install-indep, install-arch, install, binary-arch, binary-indep, and binary. OVERRIDE TARGETS A debian/rules file using dh can override the command…
NAME gawk – pattern scanning and processing language SYNOPSIS gawk [ POSIX or GNU style options ] -f program-file [ — ] file … gawk [ POSIX or GNU style options ] [ — ] program-text file … pgawk [ POSIX or GNU style options ] -f program-file [ — ] file … pgawk […