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diff --git a/doc/PROGRAMMING b/doc/PROGRAMMING index e1440c91..e7b6e355 100644 --- a/doc/PROGRAMMING +++ b/doc/PROGRAMMING @@ -181,6 +181,16 @@ pkgfile($package, $basename) package. The convention is that the files are named debian/package.filename, and debian/filename is also allowable for the $dh{MAINPACKAGE}. If the file does not exist, nothing is returned. + + If the *entire* behavior of a command, when run without any special + options, is determined by the existence of 1 or more pkgfiles, + or by the existence of a file or directory in a location in the + tmpdir, it can be marked as such, which allows dh to automatically + skip running it. This is done by inserting a special comment, + of the form: + + # PROMISE: DH NOOP WITHOUT pkgfilea pkgfileb tmp(need/this) + pkgext($package) Pass this command the name of a binary package, and it will return the name to prefix to files in debian/ for this package. For the |