DH_INSTALLDEB

Section: Debhelper (1)
Updated: 2016-07-19
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NAME

dh_installdeb - install files into the DEBIAN directory

SYNOPSIS

dh_installdeb [debhelper options]

DESCRIPTION

dh_installdeb is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files into the DEBIAN directories in package build directories with the correct permissions.

FILES

package.postinst
package.preinst
package.postrm
package.prerm: These maintainer scripts are installed into the DEBIAN directory.
Inside the scripts, the token #DEBHELPER# is replaced with shell script snippets generated by other debhelper commands.
package.triggers
package.shlibs: These control files are installed into the DEBIAN directory.
package.conffiles: This control file will be installed into the DEBIAN directory.
In v3 compatibility mode and higher, all files in the etc/ directory in a package will automatically be flagged as conffiles by this program, so there is no need to list them manually here.
package.maintscript: Lines in this file correspond to dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) commands and parameters. Any shell metacharacters will be escaped, so arbitrary shell code cannot be inserted here. For example, a line such as "mv_conffile /etc/oldconffile /etc/newconffile" will insert maintainer script snippets into all maintainer scripts sufficient to move that conffile.

AUTHOR

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>