DH_CONSOLEDATA(1)

💅 DH_CONSOLEDATA(1) — the manual page, bestie edition

okay so this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the manual, and it's about a lil Perl script called dh_consoledata. it's giving debhelper sidekick energy. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

dh_consoledata — declare console data files 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dh_consoledata [debhelper options] [-n]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so this program is here to help you build a package that ships data files for the console. that's the whole vibe. 🌈

but — and this is important, bestie — it is still in the early stages of development. many features are still missing or only partly implemented. if you want the full tea, go read /usr/share/doc/console-common/TODO for all the details. 👀

for now, here's what it actually does: it takes a debian/package.keymaps file, installs it in the package build directory, and creates the debian/package.config and debian/package.templates files. slay. ✨

it also makes the ${console:depends} variable available for the control file. you should reference that variable in the Depends field — and you should reference ${perl:depends} there too if you use dh_perl (which, lowkey, you should be calling anyway, because your package is gonna include a perl debconf script). 💖

and ultimately? it should one day let you declare fonts and SFM fallbacks. not yet though. it's the dream. 🌸

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -n, --noscripts — do not touch the postinst/postrm scripts. leave them alone, they're doing fine. 🙈
• -d — install the debconf templates and config script (and add the postinst fragment too, unless -n is also specified), even if there's no debian/package.keymaps file at all. ⚠️ this one is normally meant for internal use, so be careful: the name of the option and its semantics will probably change in the near future, to accommodate for new needs. so don't get too attached, it's going through a phase. 💀

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• debhelper(1) 👑

also, fun fact: this program is an extension to debhelper. it's basically debhelper's chaotic little cousin. 🦋

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org> — thank you for your service, icon 👑

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and that's a wrap bestie 💜 this page was brought to you by perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-03-15. go forth and declare your console data files, no cap. 🎀✨