DH_BUILDDEB(1)

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✨ DH_BUILDDEB ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the dh_builddeb page — it's a Debhelper classic and honestly? lowkey iconic. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

dh_builddeb — build Debian binary packages 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

dh_builddeb [debhelper options] [--destdir=directory] [--filename=name]
[-- params]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, dh_builddeb literally just calls dpkg-deb(1) to build a Debian package or packages. that's the whole vibe. it will also build dbgsym packages when dh_strip(1) and dh_gencontrol(1) have prepared them for it. 🫶

it supports building multiple binary packages in parallel, when that's enabled by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. multitasking queen behavior, no cap.

when the Rules-Requires-Root field is not (effectively) binary-targets, dh_builddeb will pass --root-owner-group to dpkg-deb(1). periodt.

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • --destdir=directory — use this if you want the generated .deb files to land in a directory other than the default of "..". she'll pack her bags and move if you ask nicely 💅
  • --filename=name — use this if you want to force the generated .deb file to have a particular file name. does not work well if more than one .deb is generated! 😭 one (1) name for multiple files is giving chaos bestie
  • -- params — pass params to dpkg-deb(1) when it's used to build the package. straight through, no middleman ✨
  • -uparams — this is another way to pass params to dpkg-deb(1). it is deprecated; use -- instead. it's giving legacy energy, we don't do that anymore 🙈

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

this program is a part of debhelper. she's not a solo artist, she's in a group 🎤

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> 👑

and that's the whole page bestie, every flag accounted for, nothing skipped, we ate and left no crumbs 🍓

bye babes! this was version 14.5ubuntu1, dated 2026-09-21 — mwah 💜🧚

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