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author | joey <joey> | 2005-06-13 19:59:53 +0000 |
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committer | joey <joey> | 2005-06-13 19:59:53 +0000 |
commit | 1153ddb381f7e854b125791a5ff9be6b81d87cc3 (patch) | |
tree | 729e1875ff43f2735f8c1f8ca1bcfa96e14c2732 /debhelper.pod | |
parent | 46a21fd82209577d6ba69c79d243889ea4f3d332 (diff) |
r1763: releasing version 4.9.0
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1 files changed, 28 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/debhelper.pod b/debhelper.pod index 1aeec099..76ee5eb6 100644 --- a/debhelper.pod +++ b/debhelper.pod @@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ files. Documentation or example files to install, files to move, and so on. When appropriate, in cases like these, you can use standard shell wildcard characters ('?' and '*' and '[..]' character classes) in the files. +You can also put comments in these files; lines beginning with "#" are +ignored. + =head1 SHARED DEBHELPER OPTIONS The following command line options are supported by all debhelper programs. @@ -256,6 +259,7 @@ This is the original debhelper compatibility level, and so it is the default one. In this mode, debhelper will use debian/tmp as the package tree directory for the first binary package listed in the control file, while using debian/<package> for all other packages listed in the control file. + This mode is deprecated. =item V2 @@ -263,6 +267,8 @@ This mode is deprecated. In this mode, debhelper will consistently use debian/<package> as the package tree directory for every package that is built. +This mode is deprecated. + =item V3 This mode works like V2, with the following additions: @@ -312,6 +318,27 @@ dh_link will correct existing links to conform with policy. =back +=item V5 + +This mode is still under development. Its changes from V4 are: + +=over 8 + +=item - + +Comments are ignored in debhelper config files. + +=item - + +dh_strip --dbg-package now specifies the name of a package to put debugging +symbols in, not the packages to take the symbols from. + +=item - + +dh_installdocs skips installing empty files. + +=back + =back =head2 Doc directory symlinks @@ -340,7 +367,7 @@ In general, if any debhelper program needs a directory to exist under debian/, it will create it. I haven't bothered to document this in all the man pages, but for example, dh_installdeb knows to make debian/<package>/DEBIAN/ before trying to put files there, dh_installmenu knows you need a -debian/<package>/usr/lib/menu/ before installing the menu files, etc. +debian/<package>/usr/share/menu/ before installing the menu files, etc. Once your package uses debhelper to build, be sure to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line in debian/control. You should |