DH_PERL6_DEPSFILE(1)

📦 version 0.4, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

💖 dh_perl6_depsfile(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to User Contributed Perl Documentation — this is the manual page for dh_perl6_depsfile, and no cap, it's shorter than my attention span but it does one very specific little job and it does it flawlessly. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

dh_perl6_depsfile — create rakudo helper dependency file for perl 6 module packages 🌸

like, that's the whole personality. it makes a dependency file. for rakudo. for perl 6 modules. iconic behaviour tbh. 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dh_perl6_depsfile

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no flags, no arguments, no options to memorise. she just runs. main character energy fr fr. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here's the tea. ☕

This debhelper script will infer all perl6 module dependencies of the package currently being built — the way that it just knows?? — and then it places those dependencies, one per line, in:

/usr/share/perl6/debian-sources/<package>/<package>.p6deps

(where <package> is, you guessed it, the package. she's self-aware like that. 🪞)

Then rakudo-helper.pl — which ships in the rakudo package, and which is typically called from postinst and postrm — picks up this file and uses it to understand the dependencies of packages, and to use them to order precompilation file generation and removal. 🔥

so like, the whole point is: dependency order matters, and this little file is how rakudo-helper.pl finds out what's up. it's giving backstage pass. it's giving I know the order of things. 🎀

lowkey important: this is a build-time helper, so if you're manually poking at .p6deps files you're probably doing something cursed. let the script cook. 🙈

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

go read those too, bestie, they're the rest of the squad. squad goals honestly. ✨

that's the whole page!! short, sweet, slay. 💖

this lil manual came out of perl v5.32.0, dated 2020-12-06 — so yeah, she's been serving these facts since 2020 and she has not missed a single day. periodt. 👑💅🌸

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