DH_OCTAVE_CHANGELOGS(1)

📦
version 1.16.2 · 5 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

✨ DH_OCTAVE_CHANGELOGS — the girlies' guide ✨

okay so real talk, this is a page from the dh-octave manual (manual name: dh-octave, section 1, iykyk) and it's about one very specific little gremlin of a helper program. let's get into it 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

dh_octave_changelogs — bestie, this one's whole job is installing symlinks to your Octave add-on package documentation 📚✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

dh_octave_changelogs

that's it. no flags. no args. no drama. she just does it. iconic behaviour honestly 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so dh_octave_changelogs is meant to be run from the top-level source directory of an Octave add-on package. like, from the root, from the top, from the main character position, you get it.

and once she's standing there, she installs symlinks for the upstream files NEWS and ChangeLog. that's the whole gig. two files. two symlinks. slay. 💖

no cap — it is literally just those two files. NEWS and ChangeLog. don't come at her asking for anything else 😭

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

🌈 how to actually use this (the important part) 🌈

so this program is meant to be used together with debhelper for Debian packages that are derived from Octave add-on packages. if that's your situation, hiiii, this is for you 🫶

the recommendation (and bestie, it is the recommendation) is to enable it by adding the dh-sequence-octave virtual package to Build-Depends, Build-Depends-Arch or Build-Depends-Indep. any of those three fields, dealer's choice ✨

and what does that actually get you? it's equivalent to:

  • adding dh-octave to that same field, AND
  • adding --with=octave to the dh sequencer in debian/rules

...except — and this is the plot twist 🍓 — that only -arch/-indep/profiled builds are affected. so it's the same vibe, just scoped differently. the way that it's smarter about which builds it touches? yeah. that.

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org> — thank you for your service, king 🫡

and that's the whole page fr fr. this was dh-octave manual, version 1.16.2, dated 2026-07-18, and yes she ate and left no crumbs 💅💖✨

📦 where this page comes from