dh_installdebconf

Synopsis

dh_installdebconf [debhelper options] [-n] [-- params]

Description

dh_installdebconf is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files used by debconf into package build directories.

It also automatically generates the postrm commands needed to interface with debconf. The commands are added to the maintainer scripts by dh_installdeb. See dh_installdeb(1) for an explanation of how that works.

Note that if you use debconf, your package probably needs to depend on it (it will be added to ${misc:Depends} by this program).

Note that for your config script to be called by dpkg, your postinst needs to source debconf's confmodule. dh_installdebconf does not install this statement into the postinst automatically as it is too hard to do it right.

Files

debian/package.config

This is the debconf config script, and is installed into the DEBIAN directory in the package build directory.

Inside the script, the token #DEBHELPER# is replaced with shell script snippets generated by other debhelper commands.

debian/package.templates

This is the debconf templates file, and is installed into the DEBIAN directory in the package build directory.

debian/po/

If this directory is present, this program will automatically use po2debconf(1) to generate merged templates files that include the translations from there.

For this to work, your package should build-depend on po-debconf.

Options

-n, --no-scripts

Do not modify postrm script.

-- params

Pass the params to po2debconf.

See Also

debhelper(7)

This program is a part of debhelper.

Author

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

Referenced By

debconf-devel(7), debhelper(7).