dh_perl - calculates Perl dependencies and cleans up after MakeMaker

       Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>

13.24.1ubuntu2                                     2025-02-11                                         DH_PERL(1)

       Debian policy, version 3.8.3

       Perl policy, version 1.20

dh_perl is a debhelper program that is responsible for generating the ${perl:Depends} substitutions and
       adding them to substvars files.

       The program will look at Perl scripts and modules in your package, and will use this information to
       generate a dependency on perl or perlapi. The dependency will be substituted into your package's control
       file wherever you place the token ${perl:Depends}.

       dh_perl also cleans up empty directories that MakeMaker can generate when installing Perl modules.

       dh_perl - calculates Perl dependencies and cleans up after MakeMaker

-d  In  some specific cases you may want to depend on perl-base rather than the full perl package. If so,
           you can pass the -d option to make dh_perl generate a dependency on the correct base package. This is
           only necessary for some packages that are included in the base system.

           Note that this flag may cause no dependency on  perl-base  to  be  generated  at  all.  perl-base  is
           Essential, so its dependency can be left out, unless a versioned dependency is needed.

       -V  By  default,  scripts  and  architecture  independent modules don't depend on any specific version of
           perl. The -V option causes the current version of the perl (or  perl-base  with  -d)  package  to  be
           specified.

       librarydirs
           If  your  package installs Perl modules in non-standard directories, you can make dh_perl check those
           directories by passing their names on the  command  line.  It  will  only  check  the  vendorlib  and
           vendorarch directories by default.

debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

dh_perl [debhelperoptions] [-d] [librarydirs ...]