r1590: * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.

[debhelper.git] / dh_gencontrol

diff --git a/dh_gencontrol b/dh_gencontrol
index 46f192b64589d5502b0658be66b188cdf678a93b..b9aaefb490d59873823e1fe703268d7872af7ff5 100755 (executable)
--- a/dh_gencontrol
+++ b/dh_gencontrol
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ use Debian::Debhelper::Dh_Lib;
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
-  dh_gencontrol [debhelper options] [-uparams] [-- params]
+B<dh_gencontrol> [S<I<debhelper options>>] [S<B<--> I<params>>]
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ dh_gencontrol is a debhelper program that is responsible for generating
 control files, and installing them into the DEBIAN directory with the
 proper permissions.
 
-This program is merely a wrapper around L<dpkg-gencontrol(1)>.
+This program is merely a wrapper around L<dpkg-gencontrol(1)>, which calls
+it once for each package being acted on, and passes in some additional
+useful flags including "-isp". 
 
 =head1 OPTIONS
 
@@ -51,18 +53,23 @@ foreach my $package (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
        }
 
        # Generate and install control file.
-       doit("dpkg-gencontrol","-l$changelog","-isp","-p$package",
-               "-Tdebian/${ext}substvars","-P$tmp",@{$dh{U_PARAMS}});
+       my @command="dpkg-gencontrol";
+       if (GetPackages() > 1) {
+               push @command, "-p$package";
+       }
+       doit(@command, "-l$changelog", "-isp", "-Tdebian/${ext}substvars", 
+               "-P$tmp",@{$dh{U_PARAMS}});
 
-       # This chmod is only necessary if the user sets the umask to something odd.
+       # This chmod is only necessary if the user sets the umask to
+       # something odd.
        doit("chmod","644","$tmp/DEBIAN/control");
        
-       doit("chown","0.0","$tmp/DEBIAN/control");
+       doit("chown","0:0","$tmp/DEBIAN/control");
 }
 
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
-L<debhelper(1)>
+L<debhelper(7)>
 
 This program is a part of debhelper.