General information about how to use dh_* commands is in the
debhelper(7) manual page, which is linked from SEE ALSO in
dh_installman(1) (and others). For instance, it says:
DEBHELPER CONFIG FILES
Many debhelper commands make use of files in debian/ to control
what they do. Besides the common debian/changelog and
debian/control, which are in all packages, not just those using
debhelper, some additional files can be used to configure the
behavior of specific debhelper commands. These files are typically
named debian/package.foo (where "package" of course, is replaced
with the package that is being acted on).
For example, dh_installdocs uses files named debian/package.docs to
list the documentation files it will install. See the man pages of
individual commands for details about the names and formats of the
files they use. Generally, these files will list files to act on,
one file per line. Some programs in debhelper use pairs of files
and destinations or slightly more complicated formats.
Note that if a package is the first (or only) binary package listed
in debian/control, debhelper will use debian/foo if no
debian/package.foo file can be found.
In some rare cases, you may want to have different versions of
these files for different architectures. If files named
debian/package.foo.arch exist, where "arch" is the same as the
output of "dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH", then they will be
used in preference to other, more general files.
In many cases, these config files are used to specify various types
of files. Documentation or example files to install, files to move,
and so on. When appropriate, in cases like these, you can use
standard shell wildcard characters ('?' and '*' and '[..]'
character classes) in the files.
You can also put comments in these files; lines beginning with "#"
are ignored.
There is no need for any explanation of where to store the manual pages
in dh_installman(1), since there are no restrictions on this.
** Changed in: debhelper (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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man page of dh_installman incomplete for newbie
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/184156
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