DH_GENCONTROL

Section: Debhelper (1)
Updated: 2016-07-19
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NAME

dh_gencontrol - generate and install control file

SYNOPSIS

dh_gencontrol [debhelper options] [-- params]

DESCRIPTION

dh_gencontrol is a debhelper program that is responsible for generating control files, and installing them into the DEBIAN directory with the proper permissions.

This program is merely a wrapper around dpkg-gencontrol(1), which calls it once for each package being acted on, and passes in some additional useful flags.

OPTIONS

-- params: Pass params to dpkg-gencontrol(1).
-uparams, --dpkg-gencontrol-params=params: This is another way to pass params to dpkg-gencontrol(1). It is deprecated; use -- instead.

AUTHOR

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>