debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180

[debhelper.git] / debhelper.pod

diff --git a/debhelper.pod b/debhelper.pod
index 8b5e883c3fef6a4a080f2378901759e827071b80..de2a053a4d7df3a645c4c3ae8b24e6b98246b869 100644 (file)
--- a/debhelper.pod
+++ b/debhelper.pod
@@ -366,8 +366,8 @@ Changes from V5 are:
 
 =item -
 
-Commands that generate maintainer script fragements will order the
-fragements in reverse order for the prerm and postrm scripts.
+Commands that generate maintainer script fragments will order the
+fragments in reverse order for the prerm and postrm scripts.
 
 =item -
 
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE, if it was set to a list of things to exclude, such as
 =item -
 
 dh_installman allows overwriting existing man pages in the package build
-directory. In previous compatability levels it silently refuses to do this.
+directory. In previous compatibility levels it silently refuses to do this.
 
 =back
 
@@ -398,10 +398,23 @@ Changes from V6 are:
 
 =item -
 
-dh_install, if --sourcedir is not specified, will first look for files in
-debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This allows
-dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any special
-parameters.
+dh_install, will fall back to looking for files in debian/tmp if it doesn't
+find them in the current directory (or wherever you tell it look using
+--sourcedir). This allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install,
+which installs to debian/tmp, without needing any special parameters.
+
+=item -
+
+dh_clean will read debian/clean and delete files listed there.
+
+=item -
+
+dh_clean will delete toplevel *-stamp files.
+
+=item -
+
+dh_installchangelogs will guess at what file is the upstream changelog if
+none is specified.
 
 =back
 
@@ -464,10 +477,13 @@ Set to 1 to enable no-act mode.
 =item DH_OPTIONS
 
 Anything in this variable will be prepended to the command line arguments
-of all debhelper commands. This is useful in some situations, for example,
-if you need to pass -p to all debhelper commands that will be run. One good
-way to set DH_OPTIONS is by using "Target-specific Variable Values" in your
-debian/rules file. See the make documentation for details on doing this.
+of all debhelper commands. Command-specific options will be ignored by 
+commands that do not support them. 
+
+This is useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to
+all debhelper commands that will be run. One good way to set DH_OPTIONS is
+by using "Target-specific Variable Values" in your debian/rules file. See
+the make documentation for details on doing this.
 
 =item DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE