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).
+(it will be added to ${misc:Depends} by this program).
+
+Note that for your config script to be called by dpkg, your postinst
+needs to source debconf's confmodule. dh_installdebconf does not
+install this statement into postinst automatically as it it too hard to
+do it right.
=head1 LOCALIZED TEMPLATE FILES
Debconf also supports localized template files, and this program has some
-support to aid working with them. You may find it easiest to keep the
-translations in separate files, and merge them only at build time. See
-L<debconf-mergetemplate(1)> and L<debconf-getlang(1)> for details.
+support to aid is working with them. It is best to keep the translations in
+.po files under debian/po, and merge them only at build time. See
+L<po2debconf(1)> and L<debconf-getlang(1)> for details.
+
+This program will look to see if you have a debian/po directory and if so will
+automatically call L<po2debconf(1)> to generate a merged templates file. Or
+if you have debian/templates.ll files, it will use the older
+L<debconf-mergetemplate(1)> program to merge those together.
-This program will automatically call debconf-mergetemplate and merge
-templates on the fly if it finds your template files are accompanied
-by translated files that have the same name as the template file, with a
-dot and a locale name repended.
+Note that if your package has a debian/po directory it should build-depend on po-debconf.
For example, if you have a German translation,
-debian/package.templates.de is merged with debian/package.templates.
+strings from debian/po/de.po are merged with debian/package.templates.
=head1 OPTIONS
=item B<--> I<params>
-Pass the params to debconf-mergetemplate.
+Pass the params to po2debconf, if it is run or debconf-mergetemplate, if it
+is run.
=back
doit("install","-o",0,"-g",0,"-d","$tmp/DEBIAN");
}
- if ($config ne '') {
+ if (! is_udeb($package) && $config ne '') {
doit("install", "-o", 0, "-g", 0, "-m", 755, "-p",
$config, "$tmp/DEBIAN/config");
}
if ($templates ne '') {
- # Are there translated templates too?
+ # Are there old-style translated templates?
my @trans=(glob("$templates.??"), glob("$templates.??_??"));
- if (@trans) {
- complex_doit("debconf-mergetemplate @extraparams @trans $templates > $tmp/DEBIAN/templates");
+
+ 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";
}
}
}
+ # I'm going with debconf 0.5 because it was the first
+ # "modern" one.
+ my $debconfdep="debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0";
if ($config ne '' || $templates ne '') {
- # I'm going with debconf 0.5 because it was the first
- # "modern" one.
- addsubstvar($package, "misc:Depends", "debconf", ">= 0.5");
+ addsubstvar($package, "misc:Depends", $debconfdep);
}
else {
- addsubstvar($package, "misc:Depends", "debconf", ">= 0.5", 1); # remove
+ addsubstvar($package, "misc:Depends", $debconfdep, undef, 1); # remove
}
if (($config ne '' || $templates ne '') && ! $dh{NOSCRIPTS}) {
=head1 SEE ALSO
-L<debhelper(1)>
+L<debhelper(7)>
This program is a part of debhelper.