dh_installalternatives1

Usage

Overview

dh_installalternatives is a debhelper program that is responsible for parsing the declarative alternatives format and insert the relevant maintscripts snippets to interface with update-alternatives(1)

Files

debian/package.alternatives

An example of the format:

    Name: editor
    Link: /usr/bin/editor
    Alternative: /usr/bin/vim.basic
    Dependents:
      /usr/share/man/man1/editor.1.gz editor.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/vim.1.gz
      /usr/share/man/fr/man1/editor.1.gz editor.fr.1.gz /usr/share/man/fr/man1/vim.1.gz
      /usr/share/man/it/man1/editor.1.gz editor.it.1.gz /usr/share/man/it/man1/vim.1.gz
      /usr/share/man/pl/man1/editor.1.gz editor.pl.1.gz /usr/share/man/pl/man1/vim.1.gz
      /usr/share/man/ru/man1/editor.1.gz editor.ru.1.gz /usr/share/man/ru/man1/vim.1.gz
    Priority: 50

The fields Link, Name, Alternative, and Priority are mandatory and correspond to the update-alternatives(1) --install parameters link, name, path, and priority respectively.

The Dependents field is optional and consists of one or more lines. Each non-empty line must contain exactly 3 space separated values that match (in order) the values passed to the --slave parameter for update-alternatives(1).

Options

-n, --no-scripts

Do not modify postinst/postrm/prerm scripts.