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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:

       o   Maintainer Scripts

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

       o   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.

       o   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.

       o   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

1.12.11 							     2013-1-22						      INSTALLDEB-ASPELL(1)