.TH DH_PERL 1 "22 June 1999" "Debhelper Commands" "Debhelper Commands"
.SH NAME
dh_perl \- calculates perl scripts & modules dependencies
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dh_perl
.I "[debhelper options] [-k] [-d] [library dirs ...]"
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
dh_perl is a debhelper program that is responsible for generating
the perl:Depends substitutions and adding them to substvars files. 
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The program will look for the location of installed modules and will
use this information to generate a dependency (at the present time
it can only be perl5, perl5-thread, perl-5.00X or perl-5.00X-thread).
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It will also look at #! lines of perl scripts in order to be able
to calculate a dependency for perl scripts and not only perl modules.
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In addition it will automatically remove .packlist file and will
remove the directory in which it was if it's empty. You can
switch off this option by passing -k.
.SH OPTIONS
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.B debhelper options
See
.BR debhelper (1)
for a list of options common to all debhelper commands.
.TP
.B -k
Keep .packlist files.
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.B -d
In some specific cases you may want to depend on a -base package
(ie perl-5.00X-base or perl5-base). If so, you can pass
the -d option to make
.BR dh_perl 
generate a dependency on the correct base package. This is only necessary
for some modules that are included in the base system.
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.B library dirs
If your package does install perl modules in non-standard 
directories, you can make
.BR dh_perl
check those directories by passing their names on the command line.
.BR dh_perl
will only check usr/lib/perl5 by default.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
See
.BR debhelper (1)
for a list of environment variables that affect all debhelper commands.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR debhelper (1)
.SH "CONFORMS TO"
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Debian policy, version 2.5.0.0
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Perl policy, version 1.0
.SH AUTHOR
Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>