NAME

       dh_makeclilibs - automatically create clilibs file

SYNOPSIS

       dh_makeclilibs [debhelper options] [-r] [-V[dependancies]] [-mminversion]
       [-lnextincompatible] [-Xitem]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_makeclilibs is a debhelper program that automatically scans for versioned CIL (.NET)
       assemblies, and generates a clilibs file for the libraries it finds.

       By default, dh_makeclilibs scans the .dll files in the package directories and writes the
       discovered compatibility data (major/minor, build, token) to "clilibs" files in the
       appropriate packages.

       However, if a file like debian/package.clilibs is found, this one will be installed and no
       scanning is performed.

OPTIONS

       -V, -Vdependancies
       --version-info, --version-info=dependancies
           By default, the clilibs file generated by this program does not make packages depend
           on any particular version of the package containing the assembly.  It may be necessary
           for you to add some version dependency information to the clilibs file. If -V is
           specified with no dependency information, the current version of the package is
           plugged into a dependency that looks like "packagename (>= packageversion)". If -V is
           specified with parameters, the parameters can be used to specify the exact dependency
           information needed (be sure to include the package name).

           Beware of using -V without any parameters; this is a conservative setting that always
           ensures that other packages' shared library dependencies are at least as tight as they
           need to be, so that if the maintainer screws up then they won't break. The flip side
           is that packages might end up with dependencies that are too tight and so find it
           harder to be upgraded.

       -mminversion
           Like -V, but specifies only the version string, the package name comes from the
           package that is actually processed. This option is more flexible if you try to set a
           range of valid versions for different assembly packages coming from one source
           package.

       -lnextincompatible
           Specifies the (expected) version of this package when the compatibility to the current
           assemblies will break.

       -r  An experimental option to automaticaly guess the next incompatible upstream version
           and insert them (like working with -l and -m options, see above). Do not expect the
           guessed values to be always correct - normally, the usualy assumed version string has
           the form generation.major.minor where versions with changes in "minor" are compatible
           and "major" versions break with compatibility.

       -Xitem, --exclude=item
           Exclude files that contain "item" anywhere in their filename or directory from being
           treated as shared libraries.

       --internal-mono
           Uses the Mono runtime in . (used for bootstrapping Mono packages)

EXAMPLES

        dh_makeclilibs

       Assuming this is a package named libfoobar0.9x-cil, generates a clilibs file that looks
       something like:
        libfoobar  1.0.2345.0_23a12f34  libfoobar0.9x-cil

        dh_makeclilibs -V

       Assuming the current version of the package is 0.93-3, generates a clilibs file that looks
       something like:
        libfoobar 1.0.2345.0_23a12f34 libfoobar0.9x-cil (>= 0.93-3)

        dh_makeclilibs -V 'libfoobar0.9x-cil (>= 0.92)'

       Generates a clilibs file that looks something like:
         libfoobar 1.0.2345.0_23a12f34 libfoobar0.9x-cil (>= 0.92)

       Assuming that your package creates libfoobar-cil and liblafasel-cil, which are compatible
       to 0.92 versions but the upstream is going to break compatibility in the next version,
       0.94:

        dh_makeclilibs -m 0.92 -l 0.94

       Generates clilibs file that looks something like:

         libfoobar 1.0.2345.0_23a12f34 libfoobar-cil (>= 0.92), libfoobar-cil (<< 0.94)

       and

         liblafasel 1.0.2345.0_23a12f34 liblafasel-cil (>= 0.92), liblafasel-cil (<< 0.94)

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of cli-common-dev.

KNOWN BUGS

       Will possibly not work correctly with DH_COMPAT levels 1 and 2.

AUTHOR

       Mirco Bauer <meebey@meebey.net>, Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org>, inspired by
       dh_makeshlibs by Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>