DH_ICONS(1)

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version 14.5ubuntu1 · 12 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

💖 NAME 💖

ok so dh_icons is the girl who updates caches of Freedesktop icons ✨ like she literally keeps the icon cache from being a dusty mess, no cap

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

dh_icons [debhelper options] [-n]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

bestie okay so dh_icons is a debhelper program and its whole job — its main character moment, if you will — is updating caches of Freedesktop icons when needed 💅 and she does it using the update-icon-caches program provided by GTK+2.12. iconic behavior fr fr.

ngl, one thing to know: currently this program does not handle installation of the files. like, at all. maybe someday it will, "it may do so at a later date" — but that day is not today 😭 which means you gotta run it after icons are installed in the package build directories. periodt. order matters, queen.

she also takes care of adding maintainer script fragments to call update-icon-caches for icon directories. 🫶 (and lowkey important: this is not done for gnome and hicolor icons, as those are handled by triggers. so don't come for her about those, she knows.) these commands get inserted into the maintainer scripts by dh_installdeb(1) — that's the one doing the actual inserting, she's just supplying the material 💁‍♀️

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -n, --no-scripts — Do not modify maintainer scripts. hands off the maintainer scripts bestie, she will not touch them 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

debhelper

This program is a part of debhelper. 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

  • Ross Burton <ross@burtonini.com>
  • Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>
  • Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>

okay that's the whole vibe check, ily, go update some icon caches 💅✨ this was <rainbow>Debhelper 14.5ubuntu1</rainbow>, dated 2026-09-21, and yes, it's giving DH_ICONS(1) energy 🎀 bye bestie 🦋

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