NAME

       dh_usrlocal - migrate usr/local directories to maintainer scripts

SYNOPSIS

       dh_usrlocal [debhelper options] [-n]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_usrlocal is a debhelper program that can be used for building packages that will provide a
       subdirectory in /usr/local when installed.

       It finds subdirectories of usr/local in the package build directory, and removes them, replacing them
       with maintainer script snippets (unless -n is used) to create the directories at install time, and remove
       them when the package is removed, in a manner compliant with Debian policy. These snippets are inserted
       into the maintainer scripts by dh_installdeb. See dh_installdeb(1) for an explanation of debhelper
       maintainer script snippets.

       When the Rules-Requires-Root field is not (effectively) binary-targets, the directories in /usr/local
       will have ownership root:staff and the mode will be 02775.  These values have been chosen to comply with
       the recommendations of the Debian policy for directories in /usr/local.

       When Rules-Requires-Root has an effective value of binary-targets, the owners, groups and permissions
       will be preserved with one exception.  If the directory is owned by root:root, then ownership will be
       reset to root:staff and mode will be reset to 02775. This is useful, since that is the group and mode
       policy recommends for directories in /usr/local.

OPTIONS

       -n, --no-scripts
           Do not modify postinst/prerm scripts.

NOTES

       Note  that  this  command  is  not  idempotent.  dh_prep(1)  should be called between invocations of this
       command. Otherwise, it may cause multiple instances of the same text to be added to maintainer scripts.

CONFORMS TO

       Debian policy, version 2.2

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR

       Andrew Stribblehill <ads@debian.org>

11.1.6ubuntu2                                      2018-05-10                                     DH_USRLOCAL(1)