X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=dh_installinfo.1;h=3728dab75ed0d5a949246dc16d196ea7fe2d48e0;hb=8b21a3c92ca26438bb925da9a5a280fc4bfd1182;hp=33e388a70d38baeaf0b64e99ff46ae7a4e4b16e4;hpb=430dd853a0827cf0419d2531cf163d4c1e19c4f9;p=debhelper.git diff --git a/dh_installinfo.1 b/dh_installinfo.1 index 33e388a..3728dab 100644 --- a/dh_installinfo.1 +++ b/dh_installinfo.1 @@ -9,12 +9,11 @@ dh_installinfo is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing info files and registering them with install-info. .P Any filenames specified as parameters will be installed into the first -package dh_installinfo is told to act on. By default, this is the first -binary package in debian/control, but if you use -p, -i, or -a flags, it +package dh_installinfo is told to act on. By default, this is the first +binary package in debian/control, but if you use -p, -i, or -a flags, it will be the first package specified by those flags. .P -A file named debian/package.info (debian/info may be used for the first -binary package in debian/control) can list other files to be installed. +Files named debian/package.info can list other files to be installed. .P dh_installinfo will automatically generate the postinst and prerm commands needed to interface with install-info. See @@ -45,10 +44,14 @@ for a list of environment variables that affect all debhelper commands. .BR debhelper (1) .TP .BR install-info (8) +.SH NOTES +Note that this command is not idempotent. "dh_clean -k" should be called +between invocations of this command. Otherwise, it may cause multiple +instances of the same text to be added to maintainer scripts. .SH BUGS It's impossible to specify filenames with spaces or other whitespace in them -in debian/info file. This is more a historical design flaw than a bug. +in debian/package.info files. This is more a historical design flaw than a bug. .SH "CONFORMS TO" -Debian policy, version 2.5.0.0 +Debian policy, version 3.0.1 .SH AUTHOR -Joey Hess +Joey Hess