It finds subdirectories of usr/local in the package build directory, and
removes them, replacing them with maintainer script snippets (unless B<-n>
is used) to create the directories at install time, and remove them when
-the package is removed, in a manner compliant with Debian policy. See
+the package is removed, in a manner compliant with Debian policy. These
+snippets are inserted into the maintainer scripts by dh_installdeb. See
L<dh_installdeb(1)> for an explanation of Debhelper maintainer script
snippets.
=head1 NOTES
-Note that this command is not idempotent. "dh_clean -k" should be called
+Note that this command is not idempotent. L<dh_prep(1)> should be called
between invocations of this command. Otherwise, it may cause multiple
instances of the same text to be added to maintainer scripts.
# This constructs the body of a 'sed' c\ expression which
# is parsed by the shell in double-quotes
my $dirs = join("$ebs\n", @dirs);
- pop @justdirs; # don't remove directories in /usr/local
+ pop @justdirs; # don't remove directories directly in /usr/local
my $justdirs = join("$ebs\n", @justdirs);
if (! $dh{NOSCRIPTS}) {
autoscript($package,"postinst", "postinst-usrlocal",
"/#DIRS#/ c${ebs}\n${dirs}");
autoscript($package,"prerm", "prerm-usrlocal",
- "/#JUSTDIRS#/ c${ebs}\n${justdirs}");
+ "/#JUSTDIRS#/ c${ebs}\n${justdirs}") if length $justdirs;
}
}
}