DH_PERL(1) Debhelper DH_PERL(1)
NAME
dh_perl - calculates Perl dependencies and cleans up after MakeMaker
SYNOPSIS
dh_perl [debhelperoptions] [-d] [librarydirs...]
DESCRIPTION
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.
OPTIONS
-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.
CONFORMS TO
Debian policy, version 3.8.3
Perl policy, version 1.20
SEE ALSO
debhelper(7)
This program is a part of debhelper.
AUTHOR
Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
13.2 2020-07-05 DH_PERL(1)