dh_perl - calculates Perl dependencies and cleans up after MakeMaker
dh_perl [
debhelper options] [
-d]
[
library dirs ...]
dh_perl is a debhelper program that is responsible for generating the
${perl:Depends} substitutions and adding them to substvars files.
The program will look at Perl scripts and modules in your package, and will use
this information to generate a dependency on
perl or
perlapi.
The dependency will be substituted into your package's
control file
wherever you place the token
${perl:Depends}.
dh_perl also cleans up empty directories that MakeMaker can generate when
installing Perl modules.
- -d
- In some specific cases you may want to depend on
perl-base rather than the full perl package. If so, you can
pass the -d option to make dh_perl generate a dependency on the
correct base package. This is only necessary for some packages that are
included in the base system.
Note that this flag may cause no dependency on perl-base to be
generated at all. perl-base is Essential, so its dependency can be
left out, unless a versioned dependency is needed.
- -V
- By default, scripts and architecture independent modules
don't depend on any specific version of perl. The -V option
causes the current version of the perl (or perl-base with
-d) package to be specified.
- library dirs
- If your package installs Perl modules in non-standard
directories, you can make dh_perl check those directories by
passing their names on the command line. It will only check the
vendorlib and vendorarch directories by default.
Debian policy, version 3.8.3
Perl policy, version 1.20
debhelper(7)
This program is a part of debhelper.
Brendan O'Dea <
[email protected]>