DH-UPDATE-R(1)

💖 DH-UPDATE-R(1) 💖

okay so this is a User Contributed Perl Documentation page, bestie, and the star of the show is dh-update-R 🎀 she's a lil helper script and she's lowkey carrying the whole R-packaging-to-Debian pipeline on her back. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

dh-update-R — updates d/control for a debian R package 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dh-update-R [options]

Options:
   --help
   --desc Update the package description

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --help — prints this help message. that's it. that's the whole job. iconic behaviour honestly 👑

🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

so here's the vibe check: you run dh-update-R from the root of an unpacked R tarball — like, literally the directory that contains DESCRIPTION — and there needs to already be a debian/ directory hanging out in there. 🫶

once you're in the right spot, this tool does its little glow-up pass: it attempts to update the files in debian/ after a new upstream version has been imported. so every time upstream drops a fresh version and you've pulled it in, this is your girl. periodt. ✨

💜 reminder: she's picky about location. wrong directory = no debian/ = no slay. run her from the tarball root, where DESCRIPTION lives.

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌈 written by the perl crowd, dated 2018-01-27, shipped alongside perl v5.24.1 — so go forth, update that debian/, and remember: you ate. 💖💅🎀