Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed to dh. Closes...

[debhelper.git] / debhelper.pod

diff --git a/debhelper.pod b/debhelper.pod
index 15f7ec258f9f79c4f1afcd656314e2159217ecf1..a896bb54dda1553c21e9ad4a737113d6a637519b 100644 (file)
--- a/debhelper.pod
+++ b/debhelper.pod
@@ -195,6 +195,8 @@ The following command line options are supported by all of the B<dh_auto_>I<*>
 debhelper programs. These programs support a variety of build systems,
 and normally heuristically determine which to use, and how to use them.
 You can use these command line options to override the default behavior.
+Typically these are passed to L<dh(1)>, which then passes them to all the 
+B<dh_auto_>I<*> programs.
 
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