r506: * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say

     what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
     advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
     line, as well as in debian/rules.
   * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
     This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
     earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
     things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
   * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
     ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
     on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
     that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
     should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
     on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
     Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
     <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
     Closes: #76352
   * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/dh_installdebconf b/dh_installdebconf
index 5833fbc7..9dc13bbf 100755
--- a/dh_installdebconf
+++ b/dh_installdebconf
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ that works.
 Files named debian/package.config and debian/package.templates are
 installed into the DEBIAN directory in the package build directory.
 
-Note that if you use debconf, your package probably needs to depend on it.
+Note that if you use debconf, your package probably needs to depend on it
+(it will be added to ${misc:Depends by this program).
 
 =head1 LOCALIZED TEMPLATE FILES
 
@@ -84,7 +85,16 @@ foreach my $package (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (($config ne ''|| $templates ne '') && ! $dh{NOSCRIPTS}) {
+	if ($config ne '' || $templates ne '') {
+		# I'm going with debconf 0.5 because it was the first
+		# "modern" one.
+		addsubstvar($package, "misc:Depends", "debconf", ">= 0.5");
+	}
+	else {
+		addsubstvar($package, "misc:Depends", "debconf", ">= 0.5", 1); # remove
+	}
+	
+	if (($config ne '' || $templates ne '') && ! $dh{NOSCRIPTS}) {
 		autoscript($package,"postrm","postrm-debconf");
 	}
 }