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| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/PROGRAMMING | 6 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 712000f6..d5437c73 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ debhelper (12.1.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium passed in a non-cross build. (Closes: #925175) * dh_perl: Fix code to prune (skip) /usr/share/doc which never worked. + * doc/PROGRAMMING: Document that the environment variable + DH_AUTOSCRIPTDIR can be used for testing purposes to + shadow existing or test new autoscript snippets. Thanks + to Dmitry Bogatov for the suggestion. (Closes: #925281) [ Helmut Grohne ] * Buildsystem/cmake: Fix CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR for mips64el. diff --git a/doc/PROGRAMMING b/doc/PROGRAMMING index af4fedeb..893b87fc 100644 --- a/doc/PROGRAMMING +++ b/doc/PROGRAMMING @@ -248,7 +248,11 @@ autoscript($package, $scriptname, $snippetname, $substparam) Pass parameters: - binary package to be affected - script to add to - - filename of snippet + - filename of snippet. For testing purposes, you can set the + environment variable DH_AUTOSCRIPTDIR to a directory contaning + the snippets, which can be used to shadow the snippets provided + in /usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts (or to test newly added + snippets). - (optional) A substitution parameter, which is one of 3 times: * sed commands to run on the snippet. E.g. s/#PACKAGE#/$PACKAGE/ Note: Passed to the shell inside double quotes. |