NAME

       installdeb-aspell - debhelper-like utility for maintainers of aspell dictionary Debian packages

SYNOPSIS

        installdeb-aspell [debhelper options]

DESCRIPTION

       installdeb-aspell is a debhelper like program that is responsible for installing appropriate debhelper
       snippets in an aspell dictionary package, according to the Debian Spell Dictionaries and Tools Policy.

       For more details, see
        /usr/share/doc/dictionaries-common-dev/dsdt-policy.txt.gz

       The actions executed by installdeb-aspell are the following:

       •   Maintainer Scripts

           installdeb-aspell installs the necessary scraps of code in the postinst and postrm scripts.

       •   Language info file

           installdeb-aspell   also   checks   a   file   containing   aspell   dictionary  information,  called
           debian/info-aspell or debian/package.info-aspell.   If  this  file  is  successfully  parsed,  it  is
           installed in the /var/lib/dictionaries-common/aspell directory.

       •   Debconf files

           As  opposed  to  installdeb-ispell and installdeb-wordlist, neither installdeb-aspell nor installdeb-
           hunspell do anything related to debconf files, since both aspell and hunspell rely on the environment
           variable "LANG" for default dictionary selection instead  of  using  symlinks  set  after  a  debconf
           question  on dictionary installation. For that reason if you need to add debconf stuff with debhelper
           to your aspell or hunspell dictionary package do it in the usual way and call dh_installdebconf(1) as
           for any other package.

       •   Extra installdeb-aspell options in Language info file

           For benefit of aspell dictionaries using aspell-autobuildhash, installdeb-aspell script will look for
           'auto-compat' and 'auto-contents' fields in $lang.info-aspell, containing base name(s) of your compat
           and, if needed, contents file(s).  If 'auto-compat' entry is found two debhelper snippets are  added,
           one  to  create/reset  compatfile(s)  in  postinst  and  the  other to remove files in a removal list
           (initially containing compat files) from postrm.  If 'auto-contents' entry is found, contents file at
           debian/ will be parsed and its contents added to the removal list, otherwise a  hash  with  the  same
           basename  of the compatfile is expected and added to the removal list.  Unless previous stuff exists,
           /usr/lib/aspell}/$dict.rws -> /var/lib/aspell/$dict.rws symlinks will also be automatically  created.
           If  you use a contents file and enable it in 'auto-contents' you usually will need only the same base
           name enabled in 'auto-compat'.

OPTIONS

       The usual dephelper(1) options are accepted.

NOTES

       This program is not part of debhelper, although it is intended to be used in aspell  dictionary  packages
       using debhelper in its building.

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(1)

       This  program is part of the dictionaries-common-dev package. It is intended to be used by maintainers of
       aspell     dictionary      packages      for      Debian.      See      the      documentation      under
       /usr/share/doc/dictionaries-common-dev.

AUTHORS

       Rafael Laboissiere, Agustin Martin

1.20.5                                              2014-1-14                               INSTALLDEB-ASPELL(1)