dh_installdebconf(1)
NAME
dh_installdebconf - install files used by debconf in package build
directories
SYNOPSIS
dh_installdebconf [debhelperoptions] [-n] [--params]
DESCRIPTION
dh_installdebconf is a debhelper program that is responsible for
installing files used by debconf into package build directories.
It also automatically generates the postrm commands needed to interface
with debconf. The commands are added to the maintainer scripts by
dh_installdeb. See dh_installdeb(1) for an explanation of how that
works.
Note that if you use debconf, your package probably needs to depend on
it (it will be added to ${misc:Depends} by this program).
Note that for your config script to be called by dpkg, your postinst
needs to source debconf's confmodule. dh_installdebconf does not
install this statement into the postinst automatically as it it too
hard to do it right.
FILES
- debian/package.config
- This is the debconf config script, and is installed into the DEBIAN directory in the package build directory.
- Inside the script, the token #DEBHELPER# is replaced with shell script snippets generated by other debhelper commands.
- debian/package.templates
- This is the debconf templates file, and is installed into the
DEBIAN directory in the package build directory. - debian/po/
- If this directory is present, this program will automatically use
po2debconf(1) to generate merged templates files that include the translations from there. - For this to work, your package should build-depend on po-debconf.
OPTIONS
- -n, --noscripts
- Do not modify postrm script.
- -- params
- Pass the params to po2debconf.
SEE ALSO
This program is a part of debhelper.
AUTHOR
- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>