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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>