dh_gencontrol1
Generate and install control file
Usage
dh_gencontrol [debhelper
options]
[--
params]
Overview
dh_gencontrol is a debhelper program that is responsible for generating control files, and installing them into the DEBIAN directory with the proper permissions.
This program is merely a wrapper around dpkg-gencontrol(1), which calls it once for each package being acted on (plus related dbgsym packages), and passes in some additional useful flags.
Note that if you use dh_gencontrol, you must also use dh_builddeb(1) to build the packages. Otherwise, your build may fail to build as dh_gencontrol (via dpkg-gencontrol(1)) declares which packages are built. As debhelper automatically generates dbgsym packages, it some times adds additional packages, which will be built by dh_builddeb(1).
Options
-
-- params -
Pass params to dpkg-gencontrol(1).
-
-uparams, --dpkg-gencontrol-params=params -
This is another way to pass params to dpkg-gencontrol(1). It is deprecated; use
--instead.
Releases
15 releases since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); the text changed 14 times.
-- since Debian 2.2 (Potato);
--dpkg-gencontrol-params since Debian 2.1 (Slink);
-u since Debian 3.0 (Woody).
--arch until Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
--indep until Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
--no-act until Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
--package until Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
--tmpdir until Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
--update-rcd-params until Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
--verbose until Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
-Ptmpdir until Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
-a until Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
-i until Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
-ppackage until Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
-uparams until Debian 2.2 (Potato);
-v until Debian 2.0 (Hamm).