DH_PERL_IMAGER(1)

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💖 DH_PERL_IMAGER 💖

okay bestie, this is dh_perl_imager from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and honestly? she's a tiny queen with one job and she does it flawlessly 💅

✨ NAME ✨

dh_perl_imager — adds the dependencies that Imager modules need 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dh_perl_imager [debhelper options]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so like, dh_perl_imager is a debhelper program, and its whole entire personality is adding a dependency on perl-imagerapi-* to the ${perl:Depends} substitution variable. that's it. that's the job. and she ate 🔥

here's the important part tho, no cap: this dependency is required for packages that are compiled against Imager. do NOT use this for packages that only use the Imager module — that's a different situation entirely, bestie, don't do it 🙈

🦋 the debhelper addon 🦋

a debhelper addon is also provided ✨ which means you can literally just write this

#!/usr/bin/make -f
%:
    dh $@ --with perl_imager

for debian/rules and call it a day. iconic.

💜 the even lazier option (affectionate) 💜

alternatively — and this is the one that made me gasp — since libimager-perl/1.007+dfsg-1 you can just build depend on dh-sequence-perl-imager and omit the "--with perl_imager" part entirely. yes really. periodt. 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • Copyright 2010, Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
  • Copyright 2012, gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>

this program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. slay 💚

okay that's the whole page!! go forth and add your Imager deps responsibly 🧚

mwah 💋 this was DH_PERL_IMAGER(1) from User Contributed Perl Documentation, perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-19 — thanks for reading, bestie, ily 🫶✨

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