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NAME
       dh_perl - calculates perl dependencies

SYNOPSIS
       dh_perl [debhelper options] [-d] [library dirs ...]

DESCRIPTION
       dh_perl is a debhelper program that is responsible for generating the
       ${perl:Depends} substitutions and adding them to substvars files.

       The program will look at perl scripts and modules in your package, and
       will use this information to generate a dependency on perl or perlapi.
       The dependency will be substituted into your packages control file
       wherever you place the token "${perl:Depends}".

OPTIONS
       -d  In some specific cases you may want to depend on perl-base rather
	   than the full perl package. If so, you can pass the -d option to
	   make dh_perl generate a dependency on the correct base package.
	   This is only necessary for some packages that are included in the
	   base system.

	   Note that this flag may cause no dependency on perl-base to be gen
	   erated at all. perl-base is Essential, so its dependency can be
	   left out, unless a versioned dependency is needed.

       -V  By default, scripts and architecture independent modules dont
	   depend on any specific version of perl.  The -V option causes the
	   current version of the perl (or perl-base with -d) package to be
	   specified.

       library dirs
	   If your package installs perl modules in non-standard directories,
	   you can make dh_perl check those directories by passing their names
	   on the command line. It will only check the vendorlib and vendo
	   rarch directories by default.

CONFORMS TO
       Debian policy, version 3.0.1

       Perl policy, version 1.18

SEE ALSO
       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR
       Brendan ODea 



5.0.42				  2006-01-03			    DH_PERL(1)