r559: * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf

[debhelper.git] / dh_installdebconf

diff --git a/dh_installdebconf b/dh_installdebconf
index be6fcabfa582b9fe83157158b6b33ab0388b85ce..b11ca7d8b8988929c320492b4b7606fc7e263539 100755 (executable)
--- a/dh_installdebconf
+++ b/dh_installdebconf
@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ installed into the DEBIAN directory in the package build directory.
 Note that if you use debconf, your package probably needs to depend on it
 (it will be added to ${misc:Depends} by this program).
 
+Note that for your config script to be called by dpkg, your postinst
+needs to source debconf's confmodule. dh_installdebconf does not
+install this statement into postinst automatically as it it too hard to
+do it right.
+
 =head1 LOCALIZED TEMPLATE FILES
 
 Debconf also supports localized template files, and this program has some