---
name: "dh_cligacpolicy"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "cli-common-dev"
version: "0.10+nmu2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/dh_cligacpolicy"
---

# dh\_cligacpolicy(1)

creates and installs a CLI policy file for a package

## NAME

dh\_cligacpolicy - creates and installs a CLI policy file for a package

## SYNOPSIS

**dh\_cligacpolicy** \[*debhelper options*\] \[**-n**\]

## DESCRIPTION

dh\_cligacpolicy is a debhelper program that is responsible for creating, compiling, and installing policy files for a Debian package.  This automatically includes postinst and prerm commands needed to install these policies into the system.

## OPTIONS

- **-n**, **--noscripts**

  Do not modify postinst/prerm scripts.

## FILE FORMAT

This file uses the *debian/cligacpolicy* files (either *policyassemblies* or *debian/packagename.cligacpolicy*) to generate the policy file. It supports multiple versions of the policy, including mapping multiple versions to a single file.

The file format of the *cligacpolicy* file consists of five properties per line, each one separated by whitespace.

- **Keyfile** is a path, from the package root, to the .snk file used to sign the assembly.

  - **Assembly** is the name of the assembly, without the .dll extension. For example, for log4net.dll, use *log4net*.

  - **Version Range** can be a single four-part version, such as 1.2.3.4, or a full range, such as 1.2.3.4-1.2.6.7. For a single line, the first two numbers must be identical. To have an assembly apply to multiple versions, such as 1.2.0.0 to 2.4.0.0, there needs to be one line for each version range.

  - **Assembly version** is the version of the assembly being =built.

  - **Priority** defines the priority of the policy files. Typically, each version will increase the priority and contains all the policy controls for prior versions.

  The fields can be separated with spaces or tabs. Comments start the line with *#* characters and blank lines are ignored.

## NOTES

Note that this command is not idempotent. "dh\_prep" should be called between invocations of this command. Otherwise, it may cause multiple instances of the same text to be added to maintainer scripts.

## EXAMPLE

For the log4net 1.2.10.0 version, a policy file is used to map all versions from 1.2.8.0 to 1.2.9.99 into the current version.

debian/log4net.snk log4net 1.2.8.0-1.2.9.99 1.2.10.0 10

## SEE ALSO

[**debhelper**(7)](/debhelper/7.md)

This program is a part of cli-common-dev.

## AUTHOR

Dylan R. E. Moonfire \<debian@mfgames.com\>