NAME
dh_link - create symlinks in package build directories
SYNOPSIS
dh_link [debhelper options] [-A] [source destination ...]
DESCRIPTION
dh_link is a debhelper program that creates symlinks in package build
directories.
dh_link accepts a list of pairs of source and destination files. The source
files are the already existing files that will be symlinked from. The
destination files are the symlinks that will be created. There must be
an equal number of source and destination files specified.
The list can be specified in two ways. A file named debian/package.links
can list pairs of files. If you use this file, you should put each pair
of files on its own line, and separate the files within the pair with
whitespace. Also, pairs of files can be specified as parameters - these
pairs will only be created in the package build directory of the first
package dh_link 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 will be
the first package specified by those flags.
Be sure you do specify the full filename to both the source and
destination files (unlike you would do if you were using something like
ln(1)).
dh_link will generate symlinks that comply with debian policy - absolute
when policy says they should be absolute, and relative links with as short
a path as possible. It will also create any subdirectories it needs to to put
the symlinks in.
dh_link also scans the package build tree for existing symlinks which do not
conform to debian policy, and corrects them (v4 or later).
OPTIONS
"-A,
Create any links specified by command line parameters in \s-1ALL\s0 packages
acted on, not just the first.
"source
Create a file named “destination” as a link to a file named “source”. Do
this in the package build directory of the first package acted on.
(Or in all packages if -A is specified.)
EXAMPLES
dh_link usr/share/man/man1/foo.1 usr/share/man/man1/bar.1
Make bar.1 be a symlink to foo.1
dh_link var/lib/foo usr/lib/foo usr/share/man/man1/foo.1 usr/share/man/man1/bar.1
Make /usr/lib/foo/ be a link to /var/lib/foo/, and bar.1 be a symlink to
the foo.1
SEE ALSO
debhelper(7)
This program is a part of debhelper.
AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>