1 Debhelper v3 is a major new revision of debhelper. Currently, v3 is still
2 being worked on, and will change in drastic ways without notice. This
3 *will* break packages that use it, so don't, unless you like riding the
6 To enable debhelper v3 features (do this with *caution*), set DH_COMPAT=3 in
7 your debian/rules. Also, it is a very good idea to add a call to your
8 debian/rules like this:
10 To ensure that your package won't be built with some old version of
11 debhelper that ignores the DH_COMPAT flag.
13 Here are the changes I'm planning to make to debhelper for v3, based on
14 prior discussion on debian-devel.
16 Items marked with a + are done. All others will happen as soon as I can code
19 * dh_installmanpages will be made into a non-DWIM program, so you'll have to
20 specify all man pages to install and possibly where to put them. This may
22 dh_installmanpages -x xterm.1 xfoo.1 xbar.man
23 dh_installmanpages --section=8 su.man
24 Ok, there's a _little_ DWIM left in there, it'll be smart enough to munge
25 the .man filenames properly. It'll probably just assume all man pages have
26 an extension, and delete that extentation, and add the correct one.
28 + Every file in etc/ is automatically flagged as a conffile by dh_installdeb.
30 * Debhelper config files will support globbing via * and ?, when
31 appropriate. To turn this off and use those characters raw, just quote
34 + dh_makeshlibs will generate autoscript fragments for ldconfig. This will
35 require you call it before dh_installdeb.