dh_makefont - Debian Font packaging helper
dh_makefont [-h, --help] [-c,--copyright <type>]
[-p,--package <name[_version]>] [--maint MAINT] [-u,--upstream
UPSTREAMURL] font_folder
dh_makefont is a wrapper for the dh_make command to
convert regular font source packages into one formatted according to the
requirements of the Debian Policy.
- -h, --help
- Display the name, version, available options and authors, and exit
successfully.
- -c,
--copyright license
- Use license in copyright file for the package. license can
be one of apache|artistic|bsd|gpl|gpl2|gpl3|lgpl|lgpl2|lgpl3|x11.
- -p,
--package name[_version]
- Force package name to be name. If name_version is given this
will set version number of package bypassing the directory checking.
- --maint maintainer
- Ovrride the default name of the mainter from "Debian Fonts Task
Force" to maintainer. to *Debian Fonts Task Force*.
maintainer should be in the form Maintainer Name
<maint.email>
- -u,
--upstream url
- Set the url from where the fonts were downloaded from to url. This
url will be used in the following fields: Homepage: field of the
control file and Source: field of the copyright file
- -v, --version
- Show the version number of program and exit.
- font_folder
- This is the name of the folder in which you have extracted the fonts.
Rules for folder name are same as dh_make. If you didn't give
proper name dh_make will fail.
The following environment settings are used by
dh_makefont:
- DEBEMAIL
- Email address to use in control and changelog entries.
- DEBFULLNAME
- You full name, eg "John Doe" which will appear in the control
and changelog entries.
If the package name has a hypen '-' in it then dh_makefont
will mess up the package naming.