NAME

       dh_metainit - install metainit files into package build directories

SYNOPSIS

       dh_metainit [debhelper options] [--name=name] [-n] [-o]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_metainit is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing metainit files (for further
       creation of initscripts via the update-metainit facility) into package build directories.

       It also automatically generates the postinst and postrm and prerm commands needed to create the
       appropriate initscripts for the init system employed on the user machine.

       Important: If generated postinst script finds /etc/init.d/ or /etc/default files with the same name as
       the shipped metainit files, and these are conffiles from non-installed packages (probably earlier version
       of this package) they are removed (or renamed if the user has modified them). This works only if the name
       of the new metainit is the same as the name of the old init.d and default file, otherwise you will have
       to remove these files yourself. See http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling for that.

       If a file named debian/package.metainit exists, then it is installed into etc/metainit/package in the
       package build directory, with "package" replaced by the package name.

OPTIONS

       -n, --noscripts
           Do not modify postinst/postrm/prerm scripts.

       -o, --onlyscripts
           Only modify postinst/postrm/prerm scripts, do not actually install any metainit files. May be useful
           if the init script is shipped and/or installed by upstream in a way that doesn't make it easy to let
           dh_metainit find it.

       --name=name
           Install the metainit script using the filename name instead of the default filename, which is the
           package name. When this parameter is used, dh_metainit looks for and installs files named
           debian/package.name.metainit, instead of the usual debian/package.init.

       --error-handler=function
           Call the named shell function if running the init script fails. The function should be provided in
           the prerm and postinst scripts, before the #DEBHELPER# token.

NOTES

       Note that this command is not idempotent. "dh_clean -k" should be called between invocations of this
       command. Otherwise, it may cause multiple instances of the same text to be added to maintainer scripts.

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR

       Urs Ganse <urs@nerd2nerd.org> based on dh_installinit by Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>