CABAL-DEBIAN(1)

💖 CABAL-DEBIAN 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to cabal-debian, section 1 of the General Commands Manual — your new fave little helper that turns a Haskell cabal file into Debian package meta data. she's giving ✨glow-up✨ for your packaging workflow, no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

cabal-debian — create Debian package meta data from a Haskell cabal file.

fr fr that's the whole job. she takes a cabal file and hands you the Debian-y stuff. iconic.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

cabal-debian [flags]

just the command and your flags, that's it, that's the vibe 🦋

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so basically cabal-debian will generate the Debian meta data for a Debian package straight from the cabal file of a Haskell package. the way she works is: the program expects to find the package's <pkgname>.cabal file in the directory from which it was run. so like, cd into the right folder first, bestie, she's not gonna go hunting around for it 🙈

here's every single flag, and yes we're listing all of them because she deserves it 👑

• --prefix=PATH — pass this prefix if we need to configure the package.
• --ghc — compile with GHC.
• --hugs — compile with HUGS.
• --jhc — compile with JHC.
• --nhc — compile with NHC.
• -h, -?, --help — show this help text.
• --name=NAME — override the default package name.
• --disable-haddock — don't generate API docs.
• --disable-library-profiling — don't generate profiling libraries.
• --disable-optimization — don't generate optimised code.
• --disable-split-objs — don't split object files to save space.
• -f FLAGS, --flags=FLAGS — set given flags in Cabal conditionals.
• --release=RELEASE — override the default package release.
• --debdir=DEBDIR — override the default output directory ("./debian").
• -v n,q, --verbose=n — change build verbosity.
• --version=VERSION — override the default package version.
• --maintainer=Maintainer Name <email addr> — override the Maintainer name and email in $DEBEMAIL/$EMAIL/$DEBFULLNAME/$FULLNAME.
• --debianize — generate a new debianization, replacing any existing one.
• --substvar=Doc, Prof, or Dev — write out the list of dependencies required for the dev, prof or doc package depending on the argument. this value can be added to the appropriate substvars file.
• --update-debianization — update an existing debianization.

⚠️ okay important bestie, do NOT skip this one: you must pass one of --debianize, --substvar, or --update-debianization. one of those three, it is required. she will not be doing anything for you without one of them, periodt 💀

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

this manual page was originally written by Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd@mega-nerd.com> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). shoutout to Erik, absolute legend, we love a documentation king 👑

and that's the whole page!! 🫶 the header said CABAL-DEBIAN(1) and General Commands Manual, and the footer was stamped May 10, 2010 with CABAL-DEBIAN(1) down at the bottom — so yeah, this cutie has been out here since May 10, 2010 and she's still serving 💖 go generate some meta data bestie, you got this 🌈⭐