r423: podized man page

[debhelper.git] / debhelper.1

diff --git a/debhelper.1 b/debhelper.1
index c8cd186cb208f15138d226b3228ff1b08f2cde53..3c3a3ccdc767c749dc90349969408ac94a2b82d3 100644 (file)
--- a/debhelper.1
+++ b/debhelper.1
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ debhelper \- overview of the debhelper commands
 .B dh_*
 .I "[-v] [-a] [-i] [-s] [--no-act] [-ppackage] [-Npackage] [-Ptmpdir]"
 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
-Debhelper is used to help you build a debian package. The philospohy behind
+Debhelper is used to help you build a debian package. The philosophy behind
 debhelper is to provide a collection of small, simple, and easily
 understood tools that are used in debian/rules to automate various common
 aspects of building a package. This means less work for you, the packager.
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ then they will be used in preference to other, more general files.
 In many cases, these config files are used to specify various types of
 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 "*") in the files.
+characters ('?' and '*') in the files.
 .SH "SHARED DEBHELPER OPTIONS"
 The following command line options are supported by all debhelper programs.
 .TP
@@ -194,11 +194,19 @@ mode is currently set by default in all the example rules files, and you
 are encouraged to use it.
 .TP
 .B V3
-Setting DH_COMPAT=3 will make debhelper start using new v3 features as
-they are implemented. This will cause its behavior to change without
-notice, and so may break packages that use it. See the file
-"/usr/share/doc/debhelper/v3" for more information about planned
-changes.
+Setting DH_COMPAT=3 does everything V2 does, plus:
+.RS
+.TP
+.B *
+Debhelper config files support globbing via * and ?, when appropriate. To
+turn this off and use those characters raw, just prefix with a backspash.
+.TP
+.B *
+dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst and postrm scripts call ldconfig.
+.TP
+.B *
+Every file in etc/ is automatically flagged as a conffile by dh_installdeb.
+.RE
 .RE
 .TP
 .B Doc directory symlinks