DH_MAKECLILIBS(1)				Debhelper for CLI (Common Language Infrastructure)				 DH_MAKECLILIBS(1)

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>

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