r1980: * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than

[debhelper.git] / debhelper.pod

diff --git a/debhelper.pod b/debhelper.pod
index 64ea29083e7828f1378d45648a54884d26ac4977..123f72675d3434305eec5ccb08557ea41d9d8535 100644 (file)
--- a/debhelper.pod
+++ b/debhelper.pod
@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ file can be found.
 
 In some rare cases, you may want to have different versions of these files
 for different architectures. If files named debian/package.foo.arch
-exist, where "arch" is the same as the output of "dpkg --print-architecture",
+exist, where "arch" is the same as the output of 
+"dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH",
 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
@@ -352,6 +353,28 @@ dh_install errors out if wildcards expand to nothing.
 
 =back
 
+=item V6
+
+This mode is still under development. Currently it has these differences
+compared to V5:
+
+=over 8
+
+=item -
+
+dh_installwm will install a slave manpage link for x-window-manager.1.gz.
+
+=item -
+
+dh_builddeb did not previously delete everything matching
+DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE, if it was set to a list of things to exclude, such as
+"CVS:.svn". Now it does.
+
+=item -
+
+dh_installman allows overwriting existing man pages in the package build
+directory. In previous compatability levels it silently refuses to do this.
+
 =back
 
 =head2 Doc directory symlinks