DH_LIBVA(1)

DH_LIBVA — bestie edition 💅

okay so this is the dh_libva manual page, from the Debhelper crew, and it's genuinely so useful if you're packaging VA API drivers. sit with me, we're gonna get through this together 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

dh_libva — it helps you with packaging VA API drivers. that's the whole vibe. 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dh_libva [debhelper options] [-Xitem] [directory...]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so dh_libva is a debhelper program, and what it does is generate dependencies for VA API driver packages. literally its whole job. 👑

here's the tea: it scans packages looking for VA API drivers, and when it finds them, it adds the packages that provide the necessary ABI for that driver to the ${misc:Depends} substitution variable. so you don't have to sit there figuring out which ABI package your driver needs — it handles that for you. ate. 💅

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --substvar=stubstvar — wait, no, it's --substvar=substvar bestie, don't let me mislead you 😭 — this one overrides the substitution variable. that's it. that's the option.

so in bullet form, properly:

• --substvar=substvar — override the substitution variable. if the default one isn't giving what you need, this lets you swap in your own. 🎀

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• debhelper(7)
• dh(1)

also bestie, important: this program is meant to be used together with debhelper. they're a package deal, fr fr. 🤝

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> — thank you for your service, king 👑

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Debhelper, dated 2026-07-14. that's the source and the version and the date, all bundled up cute at the end. mwah. 💋✨ no cap, that's the whole page — go package those drivers, you've got this. 🦋🌸