DH_XINE(1)

💅 DH_XINE — the manual, but make it cute

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for dh_xine, and yeah it lives in the General Commands Manual section (section 1, iykyk). buckle up, it's short but it's iconic 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

dh_xine — literally just does the math on your xine-lib dependencies. that's the whole job. slay. 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dh_xine [debhelper options] [package name suffixes]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so dh_xine is a debhelper program, right? and its whole main-character purpose is generating the ${xine-x:Depends} and ${xine-console:Depends} substitutions, then dropping them into your substvars files. periodt. ✨

every single xine-lib front end has to have one of these two substvars listed in its Depends line over in debian/control. like, that's the rule.

🚨 not me being dramatic but — using package names directly will, sooner or later, break. don't do it. it's giving chaos. 💀

now here's the fun part: by listing package name suffixes, you can generate dependencies and recommendations (almost) whenever you want. it's giving build-your-own-adventure 🫶. and if you don't specify any? no worries bestie, 'x' and 'console' get used by default, which generates xine-x:Depends and xine-console:Depends. default behaviour, ate. 👑

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

so dh_xine is usually called indirectly, inside a rules file, via the dh command. like this:

%:
    dh --with xine $@

it can also be called directly, as long as you do it before calling dh_gencontrol. order matters bestie, don't skip ahead 😭

👑 CONFORMS TO 👑

Debian policy, version 3.8.1. she conforms, she's compliant, she's valid. 💅

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• debhelper(7)

⭐ real talk: this program is not a part of debhelper. she just hangs out with debhelper sometimes. adjacent. separate. iconic in her own right.

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> — the legend, the moment, the author. 🫶

and that's the page!! brought to you by The xine project, dated 2009-03-25, from the General Commands Manual (DH_XINE(1)). stan a tiny manpage that just does its one job flawlessly 💖✨🎀