DH_DMIDECODE(1)

🌸 DH_DMIDECODE(1) 🌸

okay bestie, this is a Debhelper manpage, and honestly? it's giving "niche but iconic." 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

dh_dmidecode — the little debhelper helper that hands you a substvar for DMI aliases 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

dh_dmidecode [debhelper options]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so dh_dmidecode is your girl for packages that ship machine-dependent optimizations. slay, honestly. 🔥

what does she actually do? she extracts DMI aliases out of a package file called debian/package.dmialiases (more on that down below, keep reading bestie 👇).

then she creates a package substitution variable called ${dmialiases}, and you should drop it into debian/control like this:

XB-Dmidecode: ${dmialiases}

and why do we care? because this lets software that's out here hunting for packages supporting a particular machine actually find packages — using DMI data obtained through dmidecode. it's a whole matching moment, no cap. 💞

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🎀 PACKAGE DMI ALIAS FILES 🎀

the DMI aliases have to be provided manually in a package file named debian/package.dmialiases. yes, by hand. she's not gonna guess for you. 🙈

every non-comment line needs an alias and the package providing it:

alias <dmi-alias>

and any line that starts with #? ignored. 💀 (unless it's a tag above # 🔥)

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

the standard debhelper options are supported. that's it, that's the section. periodt. ✨

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• debhelper(1)
• dmidecode(8)

also, for the record: this program is an extension to debhelper. iykyk. 🫶

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

• Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>
• Andreas Glinserer <andreas.glinserer@canonical.com>

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okay that's the whole page, you ate it up fr fr 🍓 this was version 1:0.10.13, dated 2026-10-01, and yeah we said our goodbyes nine times, mwah 💋 bye bestie!! ⭐🧚