DH_PIDGIN(1)

💖 DH_PIDGIN 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for DH_PIDGIN(1) — yes that's the page title, and yes it's giving "user contributed perl documentation" energy, we love that for us 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

dh_pidgin — lowkey here to make sure you depend on the correct version of pidgin, no cap 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dh_pidgin [debhelper options]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. you pass it some debhelper options if you want, or you just run it and let it cook 🔥

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so listen. dh_pidgin is a debhelper program. its whole job — its entire main character purpose — is generating the ${misc:Depends} substitutions that depend on the correct versions of <italic>pidgin</italic>, and then adding them to substvars files ✨

like, it does the version-math so you don't have to. iconic honestly.

to actually use this program, you gotta make sure two things happen:

1. it gets executed in debian/rules at some point during the build process (normally that's during the install step, iykyk) 🎀
2. your Depends: field in debian/control contains ${misc:Depends} — this one is non-negotiable bestie, no ${misc:Depends} means the whole thing is giving nothing 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• debhelper(7) — go read it, it's the parent friend of this whole situation 💜

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>, based on various other dh_* commands written by Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>. absolute legends, we stan 💖

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and that's the page!! this was perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-20, serving DH_PIDGIN(1) realness ⭐ go forth and let dh_pidgin handle your pidgin deps, bestie, you got this 🧚💅