NAME¶
installdeb-aspell - debhelper-like utility for maintainers of aspell dictionary
Debian packages
SYNOPSIS¶
installdeb-aspell [debhelper options]
DESCRIPTION¶
installdeb-aspell is a debhelper like program that is responsible for
installing appropriate debhelper snippets in an aspell dictionary package,
according to the Debian Spell Dictionaries and Tools Policy.
For more details, see
/usr/share/doc/dictionaries-common-dev/dsdt-policy.txt.gz
The actions executed by
installdeb-aspell are the following:
- •
- Maintainer Scripts
installdeb-aspell installs the necessary scraps of code in the
postinst and postrm scripts.
- •
- Language info file
installdeb-aspell also checks a file containing aspell dictionary
information, called debian/info-aspell or
debian/package.info-aspell. If this file is successfully parsed, it
is installed in the /var/lib/dictionaries-common/aspell
directory.
- •
- Substvars substitutions
This script will populate a substvars file, so Depends line in
control file can contain ${aspell:Depends} to automatically care for
dictionaries-common dependencies.
This requires "Build-Depends" on at least dictionaries-common-dev
1.23.0 and is highly recommended.
- •
- Debconf files
As opposed to installdeb-ispell and installdeb-wordlist,
neither installdeb-aspell nor installdeb-hunspell do
anything related to debconf files, since both aspell and hunspell rely on
the environment variable "LANG" for default dictionary selection
instead of using symlinks set after a debconf question on dictionary
installation. For that reason if you need to add debconf stuff with
debhelper to your aspell or hunspell dictionary package do it in the usual
way and call dh_installdebconf(1) as for any other package.
- •
- Extra installdeb-aspell options in Language info file
For benefit of aspell dictionaries using aspell-autobuildhash,
installdeb-aspell script will look for 'auto-compat' and
'auto-contents' fields in $lang.info-aspell,
containing base name(s) of your compat and, if needed, contents file(s).
If 'auto-compat' entry is found two debhelper snippets are added, one to
create/reset compatfile(s) in postinst and the other to remove files in a
removal list (initially containing compat files) from postrm. If
'auto-contents' entry is found, contents file at debian/ will be
parsed and its contents added to the removal list, otherwise a hash with
the same basename of the compatfile is expected and added to the removal
list. If you use a contents file and enable it in 'auto-contents' you
usually will need only the same base name enabled in 'auto-compat'.
If you are interested in a simple install of a pristine aspell dictionary
with a minimal debian/rules please look at dh_aspell-simple(1). You
will still need an aspell-info file, but compat/contents stuff will be
guessed if not explicitly provided in the aspell-info file.
/usr/lib/aspell/$dict.rws -> /var/lib/aspell/$dict.rws symlinks
are no longer created automatically by this script. They are now created
by new aspell-autobuildhash together with the relevant hashes. Make sure
to depend on at least dictionaries-common 1.23 (See
dictionaries-common.checklist).
OPTIONS¶
The usual
dephelper(1) options are accepted.
NOTES¶
This program is not part of debhelper, although it is intended to be used in
aspell dictionary packages using debhelper in its building.
SEE ALSO¶
debhelper(1), dictionaries-common.checklist, dsdt-policy.txt
This program is part of the dictionaries-common-dev package. It is intended to
be used by maintainers of aspell dictionary packages for Debian. See the
documentation under /usr/share/doc/dictionaries-common-dev.
AUTHORS¶
Rafael Laboissiere, Agustin Martin