DH_KODI...DEPENDS(1)

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💖 dh_kodiaddon_depends — yes bestie, that's the whole name 💖

okay so this is the user-contributed Perl doc for dh_kodiaddon_depends, aka the little debhelper gremlin that sorts out your Kodi addon dependencies so you don't have to. it's giving "I do the boring paperwork so you can go be iconic." 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

dh_kodiaddon_depends — provides substvars for Kodi addons 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dh_kodiaddon_depends [debhelper options]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So like. dh_kodiaddon_depends is a debhelper program, and its whole job — its main character moment — is setting up substvars that carry the Kodi addon-API dependencies for you. 🫶

Here's the tea: Kodi hands out a virtual package for every API an addon might wanna use. This program scoops those up and sets substvars to a dependency clause you can drop straight into the Depends-line of your addon's debian/control. no cap, just paste it in. ✨

And here's every single one of them, literally all of them, because we do not skip entries in this household:

  • ${kodi:AUDIODECODERAPI} — (ADDON_INSTANCE_VERSION_AUDIODECODER)
  • ${kodi:AUDIOENCODERAPI} — (ADDON_INSTANCE_VERSION_AUDIOENCODER)
  • ${kodi:AUDIOENGINEAPI} — (ADDON_GLOBAL_VERSION_AUDIOENGINE)
  • ${kodi:FILESYSTEMAPI} — (ADDON_GLOBAL_VERSION_FILESYSTEM)
  • ${kodi:GAMEAPI} — (ADDON_INSTANCE_VERSION_GAME)
  • ${kodi:GENERALAPI} — (ADDON_GLOBAL_VERSION_GENERAL)
  • ${kodi:GUIAPI} — (ADDON_GLOBAL_VERSION_GUI)
  • ${kodi:IMAGEDECODERAPI} — (ADDON_INSTANCE_VERSION_IMAGEDECODER)
  • ${kodi:INPUTSTREAMAPI} — (ADDON_INSTANCE_VERSION_INPUTSTREAM)
  • ${kodi:MAINAPI} — (ADDON_GLOBAL_VERSION_MAIN)
  • ${kodi:NETWORKAPI} — (ADDON_GLOBAL_VERSION_NETWORK)
  • ${kodi:PERIPHERALAPI} — (ADDON_INSTANCE_VERSION_PERIPHERAL)
  • ${kodi:PVRAPI} — (ADDON_INSTANCE_VERSION_PVR)
  • ${kodi:SCREENSAVERAPI} — (ADDON_INSTANCE_VERSION_SCREENSAVER)
  • ${kodi:VFSAPI} — (ADDON_INSTANCE_VERSION_VFS)
  • ${kodi:VIDEOCODECAPI} — (ADDON_INSTANCE_VERSION_VIDEOCODEC)
  • ${kodi:VISUALIZATIONAPI} — (ADDON_INSTANCE_VERSION_VISUALIZATION)

that's the whole roster. seventeen baddies. 🌈

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

Usually you don't even call this one yourself — it gets called indirectly from a rules file through the dh command, like the lowkey efficient queen it is:

%:
    dh $@ --with kodiaddon

You can also call it directly, but only prior to calling dh_gencontrol. order matters, bestie. 🦋

✨ CONFORMS TO ✨

Debian policy, version 3.8.1 👑

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

⚠️ real talk: this program is not a part of debhelper. it just hangs out with it. 🙈

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Tobias Grimm <tobias.grimm@e-tobi.net> 🎀

and that's a wrap on our little DH_KODI...DEPENDS(1) era 🫶 this page lives in the user-contributed Perl docs, running on perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-06-18. obsessed. periodt. 💜

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