DH_BUILDINFO(1p)

πŸ“¦ version 0.11, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

πŸ’– NAME πŸ’–

okay so DH_BUILDINFO(1p) bestie, this page is all about dh_buildinfo β€” register the versions of build-dependencies used to build a package. ✨ It's giving User Contributed Perl Documentation energy, iykyk. πŸ’…

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dh_buildinfo [debhelper options] [generate] [cat] [install]

πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

dh_buildinfo is a debhelper program, and it registers in a file the list of packages declared as build-time dependencies, plus build-essential packages, together with their versions, as installed in the build machine. 🫢

This will hopefully help to track packages (auto-)built with package versions which are known to be buggy, and, more generally, to find out whether a package needs to be rebuilt because of a significant change in a package it has a build-time dependency on. 😭πŸ”₯

You will usually just run this in your package's binary rule. If you need extra control over the operation, you can specify the actions to be taken. The default actions are generate install. ✨

πŸ‘‘ OPTIONS πŸ‘‘

  • generate β€” Generate the list of versions of the build dependencies in use. πŸ’–
  • cat β€” Output the list of versions to stdout. 🌈
  • install β€” Installs the compressed list of versions to the package's build directory, in /usr/share/doc/package/buildinfo.gz. πŸŽ€

kisses bestie, this was DH_BUILDINFO(1p) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation crew, running on perl v5.26.1, dated 2018-01-10. periodt. πŸ’…πŸ’–βœ¨

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