did – What did you do last week, month, year? DescriptionComfortably gather status report data (e.g. list of committed changes) for given week, month, quarter, year or selected date range. By default all available stats for this week are reported. SynopsisUsage is straightforward: did [this|last] [week|month|quarter|year] [opts]ExamplesGather all stats for current week: didShow me all…
dicar – Archive Binary Dictionary Synopsysdicar -t bindic1 dicar -x bindic1 [ bindic2 ] dicar -r bindic1 bindic2 dicar -d bindic1 bindic2 Descriptiondicar archives binary dictionary bindic1. The hyphen of each option may be omitted. [ TIONS ] -t Displays the dictionaries contained in binary dictionary file bindic1. Each displayed name of the dictionaries consists…
dialog – display dialog boxes from shell scripts Synopsisdialog –clear dialog –create-rc file dialog –print-maxsize dialog common-options box-options DescriptionDialog is a program that will let you to present a variety of questions or display messages using dialog boxes from a shell script. These types of dialog boxes are implemented (though not all are necessarily compiled…
dia – a diagram drawing program Synopsis dia [-c] [–credits] [-e OUTPUT] [–export=OUTPUT] [-L LAYER,LAYER,…] [–show-layers=LAYER,LAYER,…] [-h] [–help] [-n] [–nosplash] [-s WxH] [–size=WxH] [-t FORMAT] [–filter=FORMAT] [-v] [–version] [file …]DescriptionDia is used to create diagrams. Dia has a number of basic tools, like lines and boxes but can also dynamically load sheets. A sheet is a collection of tools…
dhcp_release – Release a DHCP lease on a the local dnsmasq DHCP server. Synopsisdhcp_release <interface> <address> <MAC address> <client_id> DescriptionA utility which forces the DHCP server running on this machine to release a DHCP lease. Send a DHCPRELEASE message via the specified interface to tell the local DHCP server to delete a particular lease. The…
dhcp_lease_time – Query remaining time of a lease on a the local dnsmasq DHCP server. Synopsisdhcp_lease_time <address> DescriptionSend a DHCPINFORM message to a dnsmasq server running on the local host and print (to stdout) the time remaining in any lease for the given address. The time is given as string printed to stdout. If an…
dh_usrlocal – migrate usr/local directories to maintainer scripts Synopsisdh_usrlocal [debhelper options] [-n] Descriptiondh_usrlocal is a debhelper program that can be used for building packages that will provide a subdirectory in /usr/local when installed. It finds subdirectories of usr/local in the package build directory, and removes them, replacing them with maintainer script snippets (unless -n is used)…
dh_update_autotools_config – Update autotools config files Synopsisdh_update_autotools_config [debhelper options] Descriptiondh_update_autotools_config replaces all occurrences of config.sub and config.guess in the source tree by the up-to-date versions found in the autotools-dev package. The original files are backed up and restored by dh_clean. See Alsodebhelper(7) This program is a part of debhelper. AuthorNiels Thykier <niels [at] thykier.net>
dh_undocumented – undocumented.7 symlink program (deprecated no-op) SynopsisDo not run! DescriptionThis program used to make symlinks to the undocumented.7 man page for man pages not present in a package. Debian policy now frowns on use of the undocumented.7 man page, and so this program does nothing, and should not be used. See Alsodebhelper(7) This program…
dh_ucf – register configuration files with ucf Synopsisdh_ucf [debhelper options] [-A] [-n] [file …] Descriptiondh_ucf is a debhelper program that is responsible for generating the postinst and postrm commands that register files with ucf(1) and ucfr(1). Filesdebian/package.ucf List pairs of source and destination files to register with ucf. Each pair should be put on its own line,…
dh_testroot – ensure that a package is built with necessary level of root permissions Synopsisdh_testroot [debhelper options] Descriptiondh_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 the effective value…
dh_testdir – test directory before building Debian package Synopsisdh_testdir [debhelper options] [file …] Descriptiondh_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. Optionsfile … Test for…
dh_systemd_start – start/stop/restart systemd unit files Synopsisdh_systemd_start [debhelper options] [–restart-after-upgrade] [–no-stop-on-upgrade] [unit file …] Descriptiondh_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, in which case…
dh_systemd_enable – enable/disable systemd unit files Synopsisdh_systemd_enable [debhelper options] [–no-enable] [–name=name] [unit file …] Descriptiondh_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 runs systemd during…
dh_suidregister – suid registration program (deprecated) SynopsisDo not run! DescriptionThis 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 StatoverrideConverting a package that uses this…
dh_strip – strip executables, shared libraries, and some static libraries Synopsisdh_strip [debhelper options] [-Xitem] [–dbg-package=package] [–keep-debug] Descriptiondh_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 own. It uses…
dh_shlibdeps – calculate shared library dependencies Synopsisdh_shlibdeps [debhelper options] [-Lpackage] [-ldirectory] [-Xitem] [— params] Descriptiondh_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 ELF executables and…
dh_scrollkeeper – deprecated no-op Synopsisdh_scrollkeeper [debhelper options] [-n] [directory] Descriptiondh_scrollkeeper was a debhelper program that handled registering OMF files for ScrollKeeper. However, it no longer does anything, and is now deprecated. See Alsodebhelper This program is a part of debhelper. AuthorRoss Burton <ross [at] burtonini.com>
dh_scour – run scour optimizer on shipped SVG files Synopsisdh_scour [debhelper options] [— params] Descriptiondh_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 Alsodebhelper AuthorMartin Pitt <martin.pitt [at] ubuntu.com>
dh_python3 – calculates Python dependencies, adds maintainer scripts to byte compile files, etc. Synopsisdh_python3 -p PACKAGE [-V [X.Y][-][A.B]] DIR [-X REGEXPR] DescriptionQuick 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, • build module/application using its…