Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342

[debhelper.git] / dh_shlibdeps

diff --git a/dh_shlibdeps b/dh_shlibdeps
index 3ab89818d3614a9c15aa69ce5ab48d0d6d2a012a..34120c3a1f65e35d0b7636e4204de9b762ed6c88 100755 (executable)
--- a/dh_shlibdeps
+++ b/dh_shlibdeps
@@ -27,12 +27,6 @@ a list of ELF executables and shared libraries it has found.
 
 =over 4
 
-=item B<-u>I<params>, B<--dpkg-shlibdeps-params=>I<params>
-
-=item B<--> I<params>
-
-Pass "params" to L<dpkg-shlibdeps(1)>.
-
 =item B<-X>I<item>, B<--exclude=>I<item>
 
 Exclude files that contain "item" anywhere in their filename from being
@@ -40,6 +34,15 @@ passed to dpkg-shlibdeps. This will make their dependencies be ignored.
 This may be useful in some situations, but use it with caution. This option
 may be used more than once to exclude more than one thing.
 
+=item B<--> I<params>
+
+Pass "params" to L<dpkg-shlibdeps(1)>.
+
+=item B<-u>I<params>, B<--dpkg-shlibdeps-params=>I<params>
+
+This is another way to pass I<params> to L<dpkg-shlibdeps(1)>.
+It is deprecated; use B<--> instead.
+
 =item B<-l>I<directory>[:directory:directory:..]
 
 With recent versions of dpkg-shlibdeps, this option is generally not
@@ -112,6 +115,11 @@ foreach my $package (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
        my $tmp=tmpdir($package);
        my $ext=pkgext($package);
 
+       # dpkg-shlibdeps expects this directory to exist
+       if (! -d "$tmp/DEBIAN") {
+               doit("install","-o",0,"-g",0,"-d","$tmp/DEBIAN");
+       }
+
        my @filelist;
        my $ff;