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authorjoey <joey>2001-05-15 01:28:29 +0000
committerjoey <joey>2001-05-15 01:28:29 +0000
commitd7b306162c16a3d261fe6c7420ac484ac3d9f3ea (patch)
treecf81eaf64f1ba6642fa4a0a67872de7f83752275 /dh_installinfo
parent625338331a19fff4be0d0e70f3ea19fbc5630d4e (diff)
downloaddebhelper-d7b306162c16a3d261fe6c7420ac484ac3d9f3ea.tar.gz
r467: * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
* dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
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@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ use Debian::Debhelper::Dh_Lib;
dh_installinfo is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing
info files and registering them with install-info.
+It determines some information about the info files by parsing them, in
+particular, it looks at the INFO-DIR-SECTION line to determine what section
+the info file belongs in.
+
Any filenames specified as parameters will be installed into the first
package dh_installinfo is told to act on. By default, this is the first
binary package in debian/control, but if you use -p, -i, or -a flags, it