Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed to dh. Closes...

diff --git a/debhelper.pod b/debhelper.pod
index 15f7ec258f9f79c4f1afcd656314e2159217ecf1..a896bb54dda1553c21e9ad4a737113d6a637519b 100644 (file)
--- a/debhelper.pod
+++ b/debhelper.pod
@@ -195,6 +195,8 @@ The following command line options are supported by all of the B<dh_auto_>I<*>
 debhelper programs. These programs support a variety of build systems,
 and normally heuristically determine which to use, and how to use them.
 You can use these command line options to override the default behavior.
+Typically these are passed to L<dh(1)>, which then passes them to all the 
+B<dh_auto_>I<*> programs.
 
 =over 4
 

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index c7fb57daf4cfb72a29d50c91f30b8c4d251d92b4..1c4f2c94b6791a9c287fc3e15db825fbc2210e1f 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ debhelper (8.9.8) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
     Closes: #641361
   * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
+  * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
+    to dh. Closes: #643069
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:35:52 -0400