Re: .debhelper files

[Brian Russo <brusso@phys.hawaii.edu>]

On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 03:42:26PM +0100, Eric VB wrote:
> When I run debhelper on pristine source tree, *.debhelper files are created.
> Are they examples, or should they be included in the final package ?

You mean when you build the package?
They're created and are merged in with your existing maintainer
scripts where #DEBHELPER# is

e.g.

postinst
#!/bin/sh -e
echo -n foo
#DEBHELPER

postinst.debhelper
echo bar

the postinst in the package will be
#!/bin/sh -e
echo -n foo
echo bar

> 
> Thanks.
> 
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> Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT
> 
> Eric.VanBuggenhaut@AdValvas.be
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