1 debhelper (9.20120609) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_shlibdeps: Warn if -V flag is passed, to avoid it accidentially being
4 used here rather than in dh_makeshlibs. Closes: #680339
5 * dh_lintian: Source overrides doc improvement. Closes: #683941
6 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #685538
7 * Updated French man page translation. Closes: #685560
8 * dh_installmime: No longer makes maintainer scripts run update-mime and
9 update-mime-database, that is now handled by triggers. Closes: #684689
10 Thanks, Charles Plessy
11 * python distutils buildsystem: Propigate failure of pyversions.
12 Closes: #683551 Thanks, Clint Byrum
13 * python distutils buildsystem: When checking if a version of python is
14 installed, don't trust the presense of the executable, as
15 a python2.X-minimal package may provide it while not having
16 distutils installed. Closes: #683557
17 * dh_icons: Improve documentation. Closes: #684895
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:51:07 -0600
21 debhelper (9.20120608) unstable; urgency=low
23 * dh: When there's an -indep override target without -arch, or vice versa,
24 avoid acting on packages covered by the override target when running
25 the command for packages not covered by it. Closes: #676462
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:15:48 -0400
29 debhelper (9.20120528) unstable; urgency=low
31 * dh_installcatalogs: Turn /etc/sgml/$package.cat into conffiles
32 and introduce dependency on trigger-based sgml-base. Closes: #477751
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 May 2012 13:40:26 -0400
37 debhelper (9.20120523) unstable; urgency=low
39 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #673629 Thanks, Omar Campagne
40 * Set Multi-Arch: foreign. Closes: #674193
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 May 2012 14:55:48 -0400
44 debhelper (9.20120518) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Fix versioned dependency on dpkg for xz options. Closes: #672895
47 * dh_link: Doc improvement. Closes: #672988
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 May 2012 11:05:03 -0400
51 debhelper (9.20120513) unstable; urgency=low
53 * Improve -v logging. Closes: #672448
54 * dh_builddeb: Build udebs with xz compression, level 1, extreme strategy.
55 This has been chosen to not need any more memory or cpu when uncompressing,
56 while yeilding the best compressions for udebs. Thanks, Philipp Kern.
57 * Depend on a new enough dpkg for above features. Backporters will need
58 to revert these changes.
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 May 2012 13:09:42 -0400
62 debhelper (9.20120509) unstable; urgency=low
64 * dh_installman: Recognize sections from mdoc .Dt entries. Closes: #670210
66 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #671598
67 * dh_install: Reorder documentation for clarity. Closes: #672109
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 May 2012 12:59:15 -0400
71 debhelper (9.20120419) unstable; urgency=low
73 * Fix compat level checking for cmake. Closes: #669181
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:35 -0400
77 debhelper (9.20120418) unstable; urgency=low
79 * cmake: Only pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS in v9.
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:39 -0400
83 debhelper (9.20120417) unstable; urgency=low
85 * cmake: Pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS. Closes: #668813
86 Thanks, Simon Ruderich for the patch and for verifying no affected
87 package is broken by this change.
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:29 -0400
91 debhelper (9.20120410) unstable; urgency=low
94 * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891
95 * Conflict with too old automake for AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. Closes: #666901
96 * dh_md5sums: Don't skip DEBIAN directories other than the control files
100 * dh_installinit: rework upstart handling to comply with new policy
101 proposal; packages will ship both an init script and an upstart job,
102 instead of just an upstart job and a symlink to a compat wrapper.
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:51:15 -0400
107 debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low
109 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
110 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
111 Added to interface documentation.
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400
116 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
118 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
122 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
124 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
125 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
126 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
127 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
129 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
130 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
131 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
132 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
133 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
138 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
140 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
141 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
142 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
143 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
144 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
145 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
146 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
150 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Typo. Closes: #653006
153 * Typo. Closes: #653339
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
157 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
159 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
160 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
161 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
162 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
163 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
164 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
168 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
170 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
171 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
172 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
173 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
174 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
175 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
176 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
177 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
181 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
187 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
189 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
190 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
191 may need to disable this.
192 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
193 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
194 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
195 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
199 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
201 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
202 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
203 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
207 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
210 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
211 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
213 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
214 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
215 to dh. Closes: #643069
216 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
217 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
221 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
223 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
224 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
225 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
226 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
227 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
229 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
230 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
231 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
233 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
234 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
235 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
236 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
237 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
238 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
239 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
240 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
241 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
242 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
243 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
244 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
245 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
246 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
247 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
251 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
258 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
260 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
261 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
263 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
269 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
271 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
272 Use override targets instead.
273 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
274 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
275 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
276 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
277 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
278 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
279 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
280 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
281 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
282 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
287 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
289 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
290 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
294 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
296 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
300 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
302 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
303 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
304 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
305 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
306 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
307 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
308 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
312 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
314 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
315 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
316 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
317 the targets. Closes: #629139
318 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
319 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
320 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
321 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
322 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
323 are already set to other values will not be changed.
325 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
326 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
327 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
328 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
329 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
334 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
336 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
340 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
343 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
344 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
348 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
351 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
352 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
353 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
354 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
355 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
356 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
357 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
362 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
366 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
367 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
369 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
370 changes may be added to that mode.
371 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
372 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
373 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
374 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
375 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
376 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
377 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
378 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
379 * Removed old example rules files.
380 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
384 * update french translation.
385 * Fix french misspelling.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
389 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
391 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
392 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
396 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
398 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
399 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
400 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
401 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
402 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
403 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
404 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
405 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
409 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
412 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
413 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
414 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
415 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
416 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
417 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
419 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
420 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
421 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
422 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
423 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
424 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
425 (Thanks, David Prévot)
426 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
427 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
428 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
429 target fails. Closes: #601037
430 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
432 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
433 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
434 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
435 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
436 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
438 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
439 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
441 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
442 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
443 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
445 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
447 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
450 * update french translation.
451 * Fix french misspelling.
452 * French translation update after massive man page typography
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
456 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
459 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
462 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
466 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
468 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
472 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
474 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
475 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
476 introduced by the fix to #527990.
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
480 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
482 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
483 changes are planned for that mode.
484 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
485 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
486 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
487 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
488 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
489 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
490 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
491 (genesis) still uses them.
492 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
493 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
494 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
495 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
496 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
497 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
498 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
499 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
500 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
501 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
502 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
503 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
504 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
505 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
506 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
507 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
508 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
509 commands. (See #570039)
510 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
512 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
517 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
519 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
521 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
522 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
523 in control file or debhelper config files.
524 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
528 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
531 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
532 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
536 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
539 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
543 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
545 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
546 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
547 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
551 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
553 * Updated French translation.
554 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
555 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
556 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
557 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
559 * Typo. Closes: #571968
560 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
561 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
562 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
563 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
564 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
565 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
566 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
567 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
568 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
570 * dh: Improve documentation.
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
574 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
576 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
577 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
578 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
582 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
584 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
585 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
589 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
591 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
592 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
596 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
598 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
599 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
600 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
601 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
602 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
603 options that they do not support.
604 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
605 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
606 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
607 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
608 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
609 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
614 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
616 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
618 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
619 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
620 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
621 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
622 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
623 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
624 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
625 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
626 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
630 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
633 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
634 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
635 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
636 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
640 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Typo. Closes: #558654
643 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
644 installed. Closes: #558782
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
648 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
650 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
651 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
652 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
653 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
654 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
655 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
659 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
661 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
662 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
663 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
664 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
668 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
671 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
672 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
676 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
678 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
682 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
684 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
685 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
686 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
687 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
688 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
689 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
690 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
691 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
692 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
693 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
694 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
695 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
696 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
697 time soon.) Closes: #554509
698 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
700 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
701 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
702 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
703 document id. Closes: #555677
704 * Typo. Closes: #555659
705 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
706 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
707 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
708 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
710 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
711 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
712 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
717 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
720 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
721 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
722 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
723 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
724 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
725 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
726 translation (#494300 part 2)
729 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
731 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
732 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
733 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
734 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
735 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
739 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
741 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
742 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
743 (It was only run once due to logging.)
744 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
745 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
746 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
747 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
748 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
749 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
750 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
751 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
752 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
753 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
757 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
760 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
761 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
764 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
765 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
769 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
771 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
772 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
773 flag with arch all/any packages.
774 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
775 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
776 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
777 situation. Closes: #540794
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
781 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
785 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
786 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
787 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
788 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
789 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
792 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
793 the default. Closes: #538201
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
798 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
800 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
802 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
803 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
804 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
805 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
806 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
808 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
809 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
810 * Above Closes: #491117
811 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
816 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
822 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
823 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
824 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
828 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
831 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
832 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
833 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
834 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
835 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
840 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
842 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
843 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
844 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
848 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
850 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
854 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
856 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
857 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
859 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
860 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
861 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
865 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
867 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
868 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
872 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
878 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
880 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
881 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
882 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
887 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
889 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
893 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
896 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
897 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
898 created by using `python' first during build and install.
900 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
905 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
907 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
911 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
913 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
914 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
918 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
920 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
924 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
926 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
930 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
932 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
933 contributed by Modestas Vainius
934 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
935 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
936 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
937 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
938 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
939 that support it. Closes: #480577
940 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
941 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
942 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
944 - Adds support for cmake.
945 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
946 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
948 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
950 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
951 that use them. The options are:
952 --sourcedir, --destdir
953 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
954 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
955 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
956 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
957 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
961 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
967 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
969 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
970 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
971 default. Closes: #537140
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
975 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
978 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
979 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
983 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
985 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
986 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
990 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
993 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
997 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
1000 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
1002 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
1003 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
1004 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
1008 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
1011 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
1012 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
1013 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
1017 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
1020 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
1021 warning or deprecation message.
1022 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
1023 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
1024 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
1025 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
1026 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
1027 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
1028 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
1029 Closes: #534639, #357434
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
1033 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
1039 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
1042 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
1043 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
1044 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
1045 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
1047 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
1048 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
1049 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
1053 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
1059 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
1066 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
1069 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
1073 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
1077 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
1078 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
1080 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
1081 file support. Closes: #494914
1082 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
1086 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
1089 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
1090 parameters. Closes: #527256
1091 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
1092 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
1093 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
1097 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
1100 (Patch from #459548)
1101 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
1102 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
1103 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1107 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1110 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1111 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1112 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1116 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1119 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1120 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1122 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1123 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1124 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1128 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1132 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1136 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1139 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1140 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1141 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1142 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1147 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1153 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1156 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1157 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1158 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1159 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1160 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1162 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1163 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1164 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1165 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1166 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1167 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1171 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1174 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1175 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1176 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1177 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1178 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1180 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1184 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1186 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1190 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1192 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1193 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1194 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1195 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1196 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1197 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1198 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1199 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1200 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1201 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1202 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1206 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1208 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1209 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1211 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1212 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1213 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1214 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1216 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1217 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1221 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1223 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1224 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1225 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1226 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1227 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1228 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1229 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1231 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1232 that uses them. Affected options are:
1233 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1234 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1235 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1236 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1237 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1238 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1239 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1240 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1241 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1242 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1243 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1244 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1248 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1255 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1261 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1264 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1266 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1267 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1268 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1269 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1270 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1271 than the old method.
1272 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1274 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1275 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1276 rules (see bug #509756).
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1280 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1286 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1287 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1288 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1289 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1293 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1296 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1297 empty files. Closes: #490937
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1301 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1307 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1314 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1317 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1318 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1319 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1320 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1325 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1327 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1328 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1329 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1330 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1334 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1337 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1338 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1339 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1340 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1341 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1345 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1352 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1355 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1356 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1357 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1358 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1359 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1360 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1361 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1362 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1363 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1367 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1370 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1371 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1372 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1373 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1375 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1376 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1377 breaking backwards compatibility.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1381 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1384 message in perl 5.10.
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1388 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1394 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1397 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1401 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1404 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1408 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1411 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1412 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1413 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1414 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1415 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1416 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1417 logging by dh_listpackages.
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1421 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1424 run and there are no packages of that type.
1425 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1426 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1427 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1428 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1430 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1431 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1435 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1438 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1439 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1443 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1446 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1447 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1449 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1450 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1451 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1452 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1453 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1454 planned but not yet implemented.)
1455 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1456 if the Makefile has such a target.
1457 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1458 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1459 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1460 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1461 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1462 but not yet implemented.)
1463 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1464 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1465 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1466 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1467 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1469 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1471 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1472 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1474 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1475 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1476 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1481 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1484 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1485 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1489 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1491 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1492 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1493 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1497 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1503 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1509 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1512 just those installed by the program.
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1516 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1519 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1520 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1524 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1527 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1528 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1529 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1530 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1534 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1537 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1538 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1542 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1545 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1546 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1550 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1553 with policy. Closes: #461392
1554 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1555 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1556 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1557 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1558 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1562 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1565 Closes: #460340, #460351
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1569 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1572 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1573 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1574 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1575 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1579 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1582 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1583 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1584 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1585 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1586 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1587 package build directory won't work.
1588 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1589 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1590 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1591 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1592 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1593 mode. Closes: #459426
1594 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1599 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1602 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1606 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1610 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1611 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1612 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1613 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1614 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1615 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1619 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1622 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1623 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1624 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1625 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1629 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1632 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1633 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1634 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1635 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1636 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1640 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1643 debian/package.triggers files.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1647 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1650 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1654 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1657 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1658 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1659 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1660 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1665 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1668 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1672 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1675 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1676 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1678 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1683 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1687 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1688 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1689 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1693 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1700 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1707 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1710 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1712 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1713 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1714 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1716 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1717 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1718 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1722 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1725 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1726 * Update urls to web page.
1727 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1728 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1729 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1730 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1734 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1737 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1738 - typo in alternatives call
1739 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1741 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1742 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1746 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1749 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1754 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1760 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1766 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1769 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1771 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1772 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1773 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1774 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1775 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1776 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1777 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1778 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1779 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1780 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1781 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1785 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1788 package install. Closes: #415717
1789 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1790 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1791 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1792 script and then remove the python files.
1793 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1794 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1795 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1796 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1797 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1798 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1799 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1800 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1801 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1802 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1803 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1804 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1805 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1809 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * Correct typo in french translation
1815 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1816 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1818 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1820 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1821 Closes: #406921, #381940
1822 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1824 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1825 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1826 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1827 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1828 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1829 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1830 specified). Closes: #381851
1831 * Misc minor changes.
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1835 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1842 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1843 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1847 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1853 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1854 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1857 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1858 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1860 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1861 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1862 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1863 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1867 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1870 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1873 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1877 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1883 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1889 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1890 a difficult situation.
1891 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1892 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1893 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1894 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1895 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1896 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1897 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1898 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1899 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1900 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1904 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * Non-maintainer upload.
1907 * Update of dh_python
1908 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1909 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1911 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1912 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1913 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1914 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1915 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1917 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1919 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * Non-maintainer upload.
1922 * Update of dh_python
1923 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1924 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1925 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1926 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1927 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1928 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1929 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1930 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1931 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1932 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1934 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1935 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1936 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1937 the not too-distant future).
1938 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1939 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1940 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1941 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1942 thus made the build fail.
1944 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1946 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * Non-maintainer upload.
1949 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1951 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1953 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1956 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1957 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1958 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1959 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1960 package. Closes: #301424
1961 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1962 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1963 fonts). Closes: #372686
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1967 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1973 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1974 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1975 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1976 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1977 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1978 above, but already depends on that.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1982 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1985 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1986 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1987 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1988 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1989 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1993 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1999 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
2005 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
2006 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
2010 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
2013 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
2017 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
2021 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
2022 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
2023 new version (0.24.1).
2024 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
2025 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
2028 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
2029 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
2030 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
2031 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
2032 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
2033 new directory on their own.
2034 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
2035 * Fix broken directory removal code.
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
2039 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
2042 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
2043 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
2044 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
2045 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
2049 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
2052 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
2053 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
2054 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
2055 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
2056 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
2060 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
2066 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * Typo. Closes: #358904
2070 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
2071 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
2075 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2076 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
2080 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
2082 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
2083 || exit 0 instead of the intended
2085 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
2086 ignored. Closes: #337664
2088 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
2093 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
2099 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
2104 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
2105 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2106 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2107 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2108 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2109 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2110 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2114 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2117 version. Closes: #350607
2118 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2119 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2120 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2121 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2125 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2128 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2129 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2130 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2134 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2141 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2147 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2150 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2154 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2157 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2158 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2159 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2160 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2161 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2162 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2166 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2169 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2170 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2175 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2178 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2182 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2185 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2189 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2192 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2193 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2194 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2195 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2196 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2197 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2201 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2205 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2206 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2207 link. Closes: #346405
2208 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2210 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2211 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2212 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2213 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2214 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2215 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2216 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2220 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2227 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2233 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2236 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2240 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2243 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2248 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2252 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2253 installed. Closes: #342033
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2257 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2260 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2261 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2262 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2267 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2273 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2279 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2283 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2284 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2285 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2289 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2292 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2297 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2304 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2310 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2313 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2314 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2315 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2316 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2317 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2318 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2319 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2321 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2325 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2328 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2329 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2333 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2336 in standard man dirs.
2337 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2341 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2347 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2350 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2355 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2362 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2369 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2372 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2373 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2377 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2380 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2381 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2382 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2384 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2386 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2392 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2398 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2401 mode. Closes: #324161
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2405 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2408 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2409 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2410 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2411 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2416 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2419 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2420 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2421 is necesary for sanity.
2422 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2423 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2428 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2430 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2431 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2435 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2438 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2442 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2448 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2451 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2452 released, so use at your own risk.
2453 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2454 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2456 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2457 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2458 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2459 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2460 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2461 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2462 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2463 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2464 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2465 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2466 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2467 including twice per config file line now..
2468 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2469 and simplfy the rules file.
2470 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2471 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2472 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2474 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2475 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2479 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2482 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2486 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2489 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2493 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2496 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2500 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2503 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2504 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2505 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2506 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2507 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2508 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2512 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2515 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2516 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2517 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2522 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2525 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2526 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2531 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2534 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2535 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2536 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2541 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2544 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2545 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2546 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2550 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2556 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2563 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2566 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2567 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2568 unknown. Closes: #282924
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2572 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2579 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * Spanish man page updates.
2582 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2587 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2593 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2596 * dh_desktop: reindent
2597 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2598 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2602 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2608 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2610 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2614 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2616 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2620 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2623 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2624 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2628 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2634 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2640 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2647 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2650 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2654 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2657 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2658 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2659 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2660 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2661 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2662 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2664 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2665 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2666 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2667 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2668 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2669 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2670 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2671 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2672 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2673 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2674 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2675 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2676 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2677 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2678 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2679 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2683 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2690 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2693 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2697 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2700 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2704 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2707 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2711 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2714 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2718 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2724 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2730 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2736 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2739 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2740 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2741 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2745 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2748 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2752 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2755 but occasionally right and necessary.
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2759 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2762 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2763 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2764 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2765 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2766 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2770 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2773 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2775 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2776 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2777 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2778 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2779 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2780 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2781 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2782 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2783 postinst scripts for udebs.
2784 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2788 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2791 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2793 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2794 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2798 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2804 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2811 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2818 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2821 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2825 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2828 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2832 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2835 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2838 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2839 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2843 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2849 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2852 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2856 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2859 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2860 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2861 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2863 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2865 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2866 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2867 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2871 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2874 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2879 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2882 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2883 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2884 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2889 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2895 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2901 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2904 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2905 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2906 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2907 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2908 associated -dbg packages.
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2912 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2915 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2919 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2922 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2926 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2929 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2933 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2936 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2941 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2944 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2948 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2951 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2956 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2959 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2963 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2967 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2968 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2969 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2970 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2971 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2972 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2973 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2974 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2975 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2976 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2980 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2983 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2988 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2991 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2992 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2996 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2999 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
3000 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
3005 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
3008 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
3012 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
3015 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
3019 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
3022 out section number. Closes: #204731
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
3026 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
3033 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
3039 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
3045 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * Typo, Closes: #203907
3048 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
3049 removal. Closes: #204286
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
3053 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
3056 renaming. Closes: #203548
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
3060 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
3063 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
3064 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
3068 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
3074 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
3080 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
3086 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
3089 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
3090 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
3091 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
3095 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
3098 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
3099 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
3103 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3109 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3116 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3119 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3124 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3127 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3131 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3134 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3136 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3137 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3141 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3144 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3149 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3152 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3156 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3162 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3164 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3168 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3171 it break hard links (see #188663).
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3175 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3178 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3182 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3188 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3192 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3193 debconf-mergetemplates
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3197 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3200 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3204 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3207 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3211 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3214 * Update debhelper(1).
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3218 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3221 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3222 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3223 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3224 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3225 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3229 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3232 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3233 the shell. Closes: #178524
3234 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3238 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3241 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3245 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3248 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3252 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3255 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3256 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3257 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3258 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3263 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3266 files from installation.
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3270 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3273 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3274 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3278 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3281 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3285 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3288 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3292 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3298 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3304 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3308 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3309 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3311 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3315 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3318 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3319 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3320 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3321 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3325 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3328 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3332 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3335 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3336 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3340 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3344 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3349 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3355 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3359 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3360 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3361 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3366 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3369 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3370 practice. Closes: #163303
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3374 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3380 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3387 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3390 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3392 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3393 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3394 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3395 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3396 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3400 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3403 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3408 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3414 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3421 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3424 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3429 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3435 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3441 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3447 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3454 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3457 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3458 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3459 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3460 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3465 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3471 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3478 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3481 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3482 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3486 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3489 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3490 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3491 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3492 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3493 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3497 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3500 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3502 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3507 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3510 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3514 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3517 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3518 right thing. Closes: #150644
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3522 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * Stupid, evil typo.
3525 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3529 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3536 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3539 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3540 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3545 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3551 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3554 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3558 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3561 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3562 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3567 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3569 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3570 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3574 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3580 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3583 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3584 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3588 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3594 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3596 * Removing perl warning message.
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3600 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3603 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3604 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3605 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3606 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3607 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3608 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3609 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3610 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3614 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3620 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3627 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3630 debconf-mergetemplate.
3631 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3632 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3636 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3639 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3640 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3641 dh_install, which ...
3642 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3643 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3644 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3645 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3646 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3647 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3648 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3649 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3650 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3651 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3652 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3653 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3654 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3655 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3656 other minor changes.
3657 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3658 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3659 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3660 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3661 course there's -X ..)
3662 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3663 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3664 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3666 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3667 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3668 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3669 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3670 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3675 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3681 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3684 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3688 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3694 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3700 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3706 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3712 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3715 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3716 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3717 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3718 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3720 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3721 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3725 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3731 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3733 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3734 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3738 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3740 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3741 upset. Closes: #131322
3743 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3745 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3747 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3748 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3749 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3750 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3751 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3752 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3753 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3754 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3755 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3756 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3757 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3758 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3759 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3760 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3761 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3762 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3764 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3768 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3770 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3771 - Better indenting of generated code.
3772 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3776 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3780 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3781 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3782 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3783 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3784 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3785 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3786 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3790 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3793 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3797 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3800 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3801 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3802 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3803 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3804 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3805 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3806 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3807 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3808 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3809 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3810 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3811 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3812 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3813 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3814 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3819 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3825 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3827 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3828 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3829 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3833 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3835 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3836 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3837 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3841 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3843 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3847 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3850 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3851 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3852 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3853 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3854 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3859 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3865 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3868 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3872 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3875 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3880 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3886 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3889 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3893 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3899 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3903 Also some indentation fixes.
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3907 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3910 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3911 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3912 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3913 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3914 Closes: #106514, #85520
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3918 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3920 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3924 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3926 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3930 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3936 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3942 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3948 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3951 change it in debhelper v4..
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3955 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3961 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3964 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3968 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3971 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3975 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3981 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3984 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3985 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3986 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3987 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3988 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3989 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3990 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3991 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3992 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3993 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3994 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3995 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3999 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
4002 look just like shared libs, but are not.
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
4006 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
4011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
4013 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4015 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
4016 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
4017 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
4018 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
4019 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
4020 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
4021 program those options go to. So, for example,
4022 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
4023 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
4024 something complex. Closes: #89311
4025 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
4029 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
4032 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
4033 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
4034 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
4038 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
4041 through loop. Closes: #98598
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
4045 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * Missing semi-colon.
4048 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
4049 this (dh_* should be called, really).
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
4053 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
4056 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
4057 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
4058 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
4062 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
4065 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
4066 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
4070 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
4073 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
4077 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
4080 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
4081 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
4085 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
4088 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
4089 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
4090 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
4094 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
4097 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
4098 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
4099 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
4101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
4103 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4105 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4106 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4110 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4116 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4122 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4124 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4128 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4130 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4134 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4137 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4141 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4143 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4144 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4145 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4146 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4147 followed. Closes: #85483
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4151 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4153 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4154 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4155 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4159 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4162 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4163 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4164 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4165 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4166 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4167 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4168 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4169 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4170 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4171 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4172 Closes: #88464, #77743
4173 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4174 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4175 us to deal with that gracefully.
4176 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4178 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4179 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4180 a while, Closes: #51225
4182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4184 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4190 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4192 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4193 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4197 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4201 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4206 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4209 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4210 don't make packlist files.
4211 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4212 debhelper coding standards.
4213 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4214 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4218 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4221 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4225 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4228 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4229 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4230 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4231 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4232 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4233 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4234 but is mildly deprecated.
4235 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4236 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4237 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4238 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4239 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4240 switching to statoverrides..
4241 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4242 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4243 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4244 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4245 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4246 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4248 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4249 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4250 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4251 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4252 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4253 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4254 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4255 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4256 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4258 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4259 variable names, pod man pages).
4260 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4261 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4262 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4263 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4264 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4265 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4266 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4270 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4276 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4278 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4283 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4286 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4290 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4292 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4293 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4294 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4298 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4300 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4301 they were previously ignored.
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4305 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4307 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4308 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4312 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4314 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4315 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4316 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4320 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4322 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4326 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4328 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4329 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4333 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4335 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4336 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4337 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4338 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4339 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4340 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4341 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4342 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4343 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4344 it is an obsolete program.
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4348 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4350 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4354 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4358 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4360 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4364 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4366 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4368 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4370 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4374 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4380 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * typo: Closes, #78567
4384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4386 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4388 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4392 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4394 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4398 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4400 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4401 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4402 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4403 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4404 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4405 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4409 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4411 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4412 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4417 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4420 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4421 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4422 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4423 backwards-compatibility.
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4427 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4429 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4430 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4431 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4432 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4433 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4434 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4435 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4437 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4438 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4439 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4441 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4443 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4444 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4445 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4446 should now be raised to severity important..
4447 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4448 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4452 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4455 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4460 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4466 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4472 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4478 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4485 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4488 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4489 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4490 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4491 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4495 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4501 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4504 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4505 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4506 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4507 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4508 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4509 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4514 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4516 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4517 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4521 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4527 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4530 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4535 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4538 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4539 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4540 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4541 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4545 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4549 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4552 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4554 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4555 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4556 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4559 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4561 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4562 the TODO entry about it.
4564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4566 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4568 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4573 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4576 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4577 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4581 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4584 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4585 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4586 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4587 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4591 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4593 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4597 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4604 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4607 (this appears to be logal).
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4611 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4614 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4615 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4616 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4617 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4621 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4627 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4630 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4631 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4632 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4633 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4637 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4639 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4643 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4646 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4650 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4652 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4657 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4660 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4661 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4662 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4667 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4674 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4676 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4680 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4683 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4684 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4685 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4686 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4687 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4688 notice until v2 is complete.
4689 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
4690 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4691 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4692 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4693 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4694 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4696 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4697 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4698 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4699 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4703 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4709 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4716 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4719 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4723 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4730 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4732 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4733 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4734 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4735 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4736 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4741 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4743 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4744 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4745 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4746 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4751 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4753 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4754 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4755 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4759 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4762 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4766 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4769 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4773 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4780 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4783 depend on the build and install targets.
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4787 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4790 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4794 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4796 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4801 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4803 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4807 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4809 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4813 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4816 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4817 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4818 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4819 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4820 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4821 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4823 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4824 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4825 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4826 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4827 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4828 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4829 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4833 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4835 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4839 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4841 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4845 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4848 right place. Closes: #55065
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4852 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4859 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4861 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4862 * Copyright date updates.
4864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4866 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4868 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4869 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4874 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4876 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4880 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4882 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4887 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4889 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4893 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4895 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4899 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4905 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4907 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4908 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4909 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4910 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4911 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4912 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4913 bits until all files have been registered.
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4917 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * dh_installmanpages:
4920 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4921 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4922 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4923 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4924 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4925 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4926 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4927 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4928 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4929 otherwise change the result at all.
4931 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4932 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4933 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4934 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4935 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4940 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4946 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4948 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4949 act on files that don't exist.
4950 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4951 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4952 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4954 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4955 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4956 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4957 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4961 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4963 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4967 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4969 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4973 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4975 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4976 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4980 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4982 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4983 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4985 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4986 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4987 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4991 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4993 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4994 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4995 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4996 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4997 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4998 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4999 does not compress. Closes: #41733
5000 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
5002 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
5004 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
5008 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
5013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
5015 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5017 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
5019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
5021 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5023 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
5025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
5027 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5029 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
5030 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
5034 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
5038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
5040 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5042 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
5044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
5046 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5048 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
5049 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
5050 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
5051 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
5052 I made some changes, though:
5053 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
5054 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
5055 that is a clear violation of policy.
5056 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
5057 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
5058 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
5059 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
5060 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
5061 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
5062 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
5063 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
5064 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
5066 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
5070 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
5074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
5076 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5078 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
5079 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
5081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
5083 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5085 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
5086 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
5087 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
5092 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5094 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
5098 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
5105 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5108 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5109 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5110 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5111 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5112 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5113 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5114 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5118 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5120 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5124 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5128 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5129 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5133 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5135 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5139 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5142 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5146 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5148 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5149 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5150 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5154 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5156 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5161 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5165 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5169 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5172 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5173 for the dependancies to be generated.
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5177 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5180 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5184 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5187 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5188 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5189 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5194 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5196 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5197 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5198 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5202 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5204 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5208 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5210 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5214 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5217 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5221 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5223 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5227 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5229 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5230 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5231 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5232 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5233 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5234 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5235 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5236 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5237 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5238 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5239 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5240 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5241 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5245 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5248 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5249 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5251 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5252 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5253 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5254 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5255 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5256 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5258 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5259 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5263 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5265 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5266 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5270 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5277 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5279 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5280 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5285 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5287 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5288 for building debhelper.
5289 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5293 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5295 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5300 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5302 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5303 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5307 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5309 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5310 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5311 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5312 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5313 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5314 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5315 it's always available.
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5319 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5322 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5323 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5324 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5328 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5331 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5332 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5336 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5342 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5345 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5349 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5355 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5357 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5358 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5359 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5360 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5364 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5367 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5372 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5374 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5375 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5376 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5378 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5379 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5383 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5385 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5389 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5395 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5397 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5398 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5402 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5404 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5405 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5406 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5408 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5412 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5414 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5415 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5416 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5417 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5421 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5424 things if CDPATH is set.
5426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5428 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5430 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5434 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5436 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5437 seems to make sense for the transition.
5439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5441 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5443 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5444 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5449 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5452 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5453 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5457 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5459 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5460 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5464 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5466 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5467 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5468 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5469 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5470 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5474 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5476 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5480 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5483 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5484 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5485 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5486 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5487 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5488 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5489 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5490 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5491 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5492 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5497 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5499 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5500 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5501 * README: mention doc/v2
5502 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5503 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5507 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5509 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5510 be using this script RSN.
5512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5514 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5516 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5517 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5518 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5519 more than 1 init script.
5521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5523 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5525 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5526 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5530 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5532 * Changed perl version detection.
5533 * Changed call to find.
5535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5537 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5539 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5540 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5542 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5547 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5549 * Really include dh_installpam.
5551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5553 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5555 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5556 * Wrote man page for same.
5558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5560 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5562 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5563 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5564 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5569 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5571 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5576 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5579 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5580 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5581 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5582 x bit was being set!
5584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5586 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5588 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5589 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5590 well. (Closes: 38900)
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5594 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5596 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5597 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5598 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5602 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5604 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5608 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5610 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5615 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5617 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5621 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5623 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5624 help from Julian Gilbey.
5625 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5626 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5627 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5628 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5629 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5630 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5631 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5636 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5638 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5642 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5649 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5655 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5657 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5661 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5663 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5664 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5668 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5670 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5671 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5675 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5677 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5678 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5682 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5684 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5688 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5690 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5691 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5695 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5697 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5701 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5703 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5707 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5709 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5710 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5711 may be deleted. (#35845)
5713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5715 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5717 * Various man page enhancements.
5718 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5723 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5725 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5726 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5727 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5731 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5734 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5735 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5736 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5738 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5739 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5744 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5746 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5750 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5752 * Another very minor typo fix.
5754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5756 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5758 * Very minor typo fix.
5760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5762 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5764 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5765 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5766 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5770 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5772 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5776 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5778 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5779 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5780 variables properly (#34850).
5782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5784 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5786 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5790 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5792 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5793 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5794 (automatically generated by build process).
5796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5798 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5800 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5804 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5806 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5807 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5808 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5810 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5814 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5816 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5817 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5821 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5823 * README: minor typo fix.
5825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5827 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5829 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5830 leave it at that. :-)
5832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5834 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5836 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5840 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5842 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5846 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5848 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5849 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5850 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5851 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5855 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5857 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5858 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5862 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5864 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5865 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5869 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5871 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5872 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5873 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5874 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5875 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5879 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5881 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5882 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5883 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5884 Craig Small for spotting this.
5886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5888 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5890 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5891 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5892 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5896 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5898 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5902 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5904 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5905 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5909 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5911 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5912 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5913 working on the last version of debhelper.
5915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5917 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5919 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5920 being made. (#23255)
5922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5924 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5926 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5930 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5932 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5933 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5937 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5939 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5940 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5941 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5942 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5943 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5947 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5949 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5950 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5951 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5952 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5953 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5955 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5956 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5958 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5963 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5965 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5969 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5971 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5975 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5977 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5978 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5979 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5980 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5981 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5982 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5983 suidregister actually supports it.
5984 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5985 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5989 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5991 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5996 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5998 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5999 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
6000 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
6001 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
6002 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
6003 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
6004 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
6005 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
6007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
6009 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
6011 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
6012 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
6014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
6016 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
6018 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
6019 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
6020 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
6021 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
6022 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
6024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
6026 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
6028 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
6029 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
6031 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
6032 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
6033 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
6034 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
6035 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
6036 effect, either. (#30118)
6038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
6040 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
6042 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
6044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
6046 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
6048 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
6049 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
6050 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
6052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
6054 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
6056 * Spelling and typo fixes.
6058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
6060 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
6062 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
6063 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
6064 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
6065 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
6066 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
6068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
6070 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
6072 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
6073 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
6074 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
6076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
6078 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
6080 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
6082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
6084 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
6086 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
6087 packages, painlessly.
6089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
6091 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
6093 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
6095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
6097 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
6099 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
6101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
6103 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
6105 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6109 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6111 * The perl conversion is complete.
6113 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6115 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6116 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6117 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6122 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6124 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6125 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6126 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6127 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6131 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6133 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6134 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6136 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6138 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6139 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6143 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6145 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6146 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6147 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6151 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6153 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6157 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6159 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6160 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6161 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6162 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6163 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6164 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6168 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6170 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6171 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6172 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6173 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6174 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6178 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6180 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6181 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6185 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6187 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6188 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6189 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6190 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6191 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6192 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6193 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6194 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6195 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6199 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6201 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6205 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6207 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6208 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6209 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6210 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6215 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6217 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6218 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6222 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6224 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6225 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6229 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6231 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6232 sections of shared libraries.
6233 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6234 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6235 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6236 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6237 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6238 things you don't want them to.
6239 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6240 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6244 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6246 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6247 shared libraries. (#26414)
6249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6251 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6253 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6254 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6255 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6256 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6260 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6262 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6264 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6266 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6267 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6268 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6269 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6270 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6274 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6276 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6277 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6281 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6283 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6284 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6285 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6290 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6292 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6293 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6297 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6299 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6300 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6301 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6302 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6303 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6304 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6306 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6307 remove debian/files properly.
6308 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6309 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6310 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6311 * Removed bogus menu file.
6313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6315 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6317 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6318 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6322 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6324 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6325 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6326 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6327 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6328 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6329 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6330 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6334 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6336 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6337 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6338 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6339 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6340 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6344 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6346 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6351 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6353 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6354 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6355 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6357 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6358 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6359 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6360 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6361 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6362 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6366 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6368 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6369 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6370 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6371 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6372 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6373 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6374 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6375 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6376 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6377 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6378 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6379 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6380 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6381 passed any switches.
6382 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6386 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6388 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6389 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6390 at all for a long while.
6391 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6392 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6393 large chunks in the process.
6394 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6395 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6396 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6401 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6403 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6404 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6406 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6411 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6413 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6414 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6415 that don't always have the same files in them.
6416 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6417 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6418 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6422 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6424 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6426 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6427 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6428 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6429 updating 27 man pages.
6430 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6431 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6432 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6433 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6434 programs act on. (#25247)
6436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6438 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6442 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6443 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6444 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6445 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6446 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6447 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6452 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6454 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6459 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6461 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6466 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6468 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6469 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6473 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6475 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6479 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6481 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6482 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6483 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6484 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6485 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6486 package by accident.
6487 * Is version 1.0 next?
6489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6491 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6493 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6494 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6495 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6499 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6501 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6502 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6503 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6504 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6505 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6506 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6508 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6513 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6515 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6516 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6517 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6521 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6523 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6524 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6528 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6530 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6531 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6532 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6537 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6539 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6543 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6545 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6546 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6547 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6552 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6554 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6558 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6560 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6561 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6562 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6563 past week. Thanks, guys!
6565 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6566 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6567 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6568 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6569 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6570 would do in the same situation.
6571 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6572 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6574 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6576 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6577 permissions changed.
6578 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6579 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6580 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6581 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6582 files are treated identically.
6583 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6584 * Minor man page fixes.
6585 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6586 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6587 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6591 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6593 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6594 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6595 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6596 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6597 use -X multiple times, too.
6598 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6599 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6603 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6605 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6606 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6607 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6611 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6613 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6614 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6618 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6620 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6621 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6622 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6623 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6624 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6625 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6626 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6627 shape if you're starting a new package.
6629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6631 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6633 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6634 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6638 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6640 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6641 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6642 because of missing symlinks.
6644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6646 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6648 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6652 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6654 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6655 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6656 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6657 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6658 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6659 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6661 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6662 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6666 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6668 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6669 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6670 to be changed after the fact :-)
6671 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6675 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6677 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6678 no version string after the -V.
6680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6682 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6684 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6685 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6690 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6692 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6693 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6697 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6699 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6700 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6701 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6702 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6703 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6704 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6705 I always welcome corrections!
6707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6709 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6711 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6715 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6717 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6718 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6719 * Documented this new switch.
6721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6723 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6725 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6726 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6727 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6728 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6729 no packages use the old behavior.
6731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6733 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6735 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6736 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6737 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6741 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6743 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6744 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6748 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6750 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6754 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6756 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6757 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6761 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6763 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6764 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6765 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6766 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6770 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6772 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6776 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6778 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6779 into the source package by accident.
6781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6783 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6785 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6786 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6787 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6788 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6789 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6790 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6791 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6796 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6798 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6800 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6801 inspired to implement some of it.
6802 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6806 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6808 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6809 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6813 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6815 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6816 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6817 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6821 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6823 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6824 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6825 have done.) (#17598)
6827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6829 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6831 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6835 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6837 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6841 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6843 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6844 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6848 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6850 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6851 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6852 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6856 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6858 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6859 argument processor in perl.
6860 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6861 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6862 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6863 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6867 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6869 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6870 type directories. (#16933)
6871 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6872 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6873 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6874 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6875 are supported. (#16935)
6876 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6881 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6883 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6884 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6888 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6890 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6892 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6893 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6894 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6895 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6896 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6897 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6901 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6903 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6904 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6905 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6907 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6908 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6909 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6910 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6911 a given package, or -i or -a.
6912 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6913 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6914 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6915 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6916 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6917 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6918 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6919 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6920 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6922 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6923 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6924 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6928 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6930 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6931 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6932 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6937 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6939 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6940 does not have a section.
6942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6944 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6946 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6947 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6948 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6949 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6953 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6955 * Fixed typo #16215.
6957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6959 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6961 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6962 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6963 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6964 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6965 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6966 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6971 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6973 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6974 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6975 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6976 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6981 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6983 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6987 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6989 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6993 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6995 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6996 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6997 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6998 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6999 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
7000 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
7001 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
7003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
7005 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
7007 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
7009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
7011 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
7013 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
7014 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
7016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
7018 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
7020 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
7021 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
7022 the dh_* programs (#15497).
7023 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
7025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
7027 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
7029 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
7030 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
7032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
7034 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
7036 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
7038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
7040 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
7042 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
7043 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
7045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
7047 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
7049 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
7050 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
7052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
7054 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
7056 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
7058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
7060 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
7062 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
7063 postinst, postrm, etc.
7065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
7067 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
7069 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
7071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
7073 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
7075 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
7076 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
7077 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
7078 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
7079 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
7080 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
7082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
7084 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
7086 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
7087 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
7088 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
7090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
7092 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
7094 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
7095 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
7097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
7099 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
7101 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
7102 installing package files into.
7103 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7108 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7110 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7112 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7116 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7118 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7122 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7124 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7125 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7129 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7131 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7132 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7133 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7134 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7135 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7139 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7141 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7142 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7143 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7144 multiple binary packages.
7145 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7146 should rebuild them with this version.
7147 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7151 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7153 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7154 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7158 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7160 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7161 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7165 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7167 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7168 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7169 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7170 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7171 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7172 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7173 debian/README.debian.
7174 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7175 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7176 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7177 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7178 in a few situations.)
7180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7182 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7184 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7188 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7190 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7194 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7196 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7197 * Fixed several man pages.
7199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7201 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7203 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7204 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7205 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7209 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7211 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7212 is ready for general use.
7213 * Added man pages for all commands.
7214 * Multiple binary package support.
7215 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7216 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7217 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7219 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7220 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7221 auto-installed as parameters.
7222 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7224 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7227 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7228 the package build directory it is to act on.
7229 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7230 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7231 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7235 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7237 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7238 ready to replace debstd.
7240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400