=head1 DESCRIPTION
-dh_installdebconf is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing
-files used by the debconf package into package build directories.
-
-It also automatically generates the postrm commands needed to
-interface with debconf. See L<dh_installdeb(1)> for an explanation of how
-that works.
-
-Files named debian/package.config and debian/package.templates are
-installed into the DEBIAN directory in the package build directory.
-If a file named debian/package.script.debhelper exists, the contents
-of that file are merged into the config script as follows: If the script
-exists, then anywhere in it that "#DEBHELPER#" appears, the text of the
-.debhelper file is inserted. If the script does not exist, then a script
-is generated from the .debhelper file. The .debhelper filesmay be created
-by other debhelper programs, and are shell script fragments.
+B<dh_installdebconf> is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing
+files used by debconf into package build directories.
+
+It also automatically generates the F<postrm> commands needed to interface
+with debconf. The commands are added to the maintainer scripts by
+B<dh_installdeb>. See L<dh_installdeb(1)> for an explanation of how that
+works.
Note that if you use debconf, your package probably needs to depend on it
-(it will be added to ${misc:Depends} by this program).
+(it will be added to B<${misc:Depends}> by this program).
+
+Note that for your config script to be called by B<dpkg>, your F<postinst>
+needs to source debconf's confmodule. B<dh_installdebconf> does not
+install this statement into the F<postinst> automatically as it it too
+hard to do it right.
+
+=head1 FILES
+
+=over 4
+
+=item debian/I<package>.config
-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.
+This is the debconf F<config> script, and is installed into the F<DEBIAN>
+directory in the package build directory.
-=head1 LOCALIZED TEMPLATE FILES
+Inside the script, the token B<#DEBHELPER#> is replaced with
+shell script snippets generated by other debhelper commands.
-Debconf also supports localized template files, and this program has some
-support to aid is working with them. It is best to keep the translations in
-.po files under debian/po, and merge them only at build time. See
-L<po2debconf(1)> and L<debconf-getlang(1)> for details.
+=item debian/I<package>.templates
-This program will look to see if you have a debian/po directory and if so will
-automatically call L<po2debconf(1)> to generate a merged templates file. Or
-if you have debian/templates.ll files, it will use the older
-L<debconf-mergetemplate(1)> program to merge those together.
+This is the debconf F<templates> file, and is installed into the F<DEBIAN>
+directory in the package build directory.
-Note that if your package has a debian/po directory it should build-depend on po-debconf.
+=item F<debian/po/>
-For example, if you have a German translation,
-strings from debian/po/de.po are merged with debian/package.templates.
+If this directory is present, this program will automatically use
+L<po2debconf(1)> to generate merged templates
+files that include the translations from there.
+
+For this to work, your package should build-depend on F<po-debconf>.
+
+=back
=head1 OPTIONS
=item B<-n>, B<--noscripts>
-Do not modify postrm script.
+Do not modify F<postrm> script.
=item B<--> I<params>
-Pass the params to po2debconf, if it is run or debconf-mergetemplate, if it
-is run.
+Pass the params to B<po2debconf>.
=back
if ($templates ne '') {
# Are there old-style translated templates?
- my @trans=(glob("$templates.??"), glob("$templates.??_??"));
+ if (glob("$templates.??"), glob("$templates.??_??")) {
+ warning "Ignoring debian/templates.ll files. Switch to po-debconf!";
+ }
umask(0022); # since I do a redirect below
- # Look for po directory.
if (-d "debian/po") {
- if (@trans) {
- warning "ignoring debian/templates.ll files in favour of debian/po directory";
- }
complex_doit("po2debconf @extraparams $templates > $tmp/DEBIAN/templates");
}
- elsif (@trans) {
- complex_doit("debconf-mergetemplate --drop-old-templates @extraparams @trans $templates > $tmp/DEBIAN/templates");
- chmod 0644, "$tmp/DEBIAN/templates";
- chown 0, 0, "$tmp/DEBIAN/templates";
- }
else {
doit("install", "-o", 0, "-g", 0, "-m", 644, "-p",
$templates, "$tmp/DEBIAN/templates");
}
# I'm going with debconf 0.5 because it was the first
- # "modern" one.
- my $debconfdep="debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0";
+ # "modern" one. udebs just need cdebconf.
+ my $debconfdep=is_udeb($package) ? "cdebconf-udeb" : "debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0";
if ($config ne '' || $templates ne '') {
addsubstvar($package, "misc:Depends", $debconfdep);
}
- else {
- addsubstvar($package, "misc:Depends", $debconfdep, undef, 1); # remove
- }
if (($config ne '' || $templates ne '') && ! $dh{NOSCRIPTS}) {
autoscript($package,"postrm","postrm-debconf");