+debhelper (7.2.3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
+ stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
+ scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:57:47 -0500
+
debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
* dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
dh_installmenu is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing
files used by the debian menu package into package build directories.
-It also automatically generates the postinst and postrm commands needed to
-interface with the debian menu package. These commands are inserted into
-the maintainer scripts by dh_installdeb. See L<dh_installdeb(1)> for an
-explanation of how this works.
-
If a file named debian/package.menu exists, then it is installed into
usr/share/menu/package in the package build directory. This is a debian menu
file. See L<menufile(5)> for its format.
If a file named debian/package.menu-method exits, then it is installed into
etc/menu-methods/package in the package build directory. This is a debian
-menu method file.
+menu method file. In this case, dh_installmenu also automatically generates
+the postinst and postrm commands needed to
+interface with the debian menu package. These commands are inserted into
+the maintainer scripts by dh_installdeb. See L<dh_installdeb(1)> for an
+explanation of how this works.
=head1 OPTIONS
doit("install","-d","$tmp/usr/share/menu");
}
doit("install","-p","-m644",$menu,"$tmp/usr/share/menu/$package");
-
- # Add the scripts if a menu-method file doesn't exist.
- # The scripts for menu-method handle everything these do, too.
- if ($menu_method eq "" && ! $dh{NOSCRIPTS}) {
- autoscript($package,"postinst","postinst-menu");
- autoscript($package,"postrm","postrm-menu")
- }
}
if ($menu_method ne '') {