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
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:51:07 -0600
11 debhelper (9.20120608) unstable; urgency=low
13 * dh: When there's an -indep override target without -arch, or vice versa,
14 avoid acting on packages covered by the override target when running
15 the command for packages not covered by it. Closes: #676462
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:15:48 -0400
19 debhelper (9.20120528) unstable; urgency=low
21 * dh_installcatalogs: Turn /etc/sgml/$package.cat into conffiles
22 and introduce dependency on trigger-based sgml-base. Closes: #477751
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 May 2012 13:40:26 -0400
27 debhelper (9.20120523) unstable; urgency=low
29 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #673629 Thanks, Omar Campagne
30 * Set Multi-Arch: foreign. Closes: #674193
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 May 2012 14:55:48 -0400
34 debhelper (9.20120518) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Fix versioned dependency on dpkg for xz options. Closes: #672895
37 * dh_link: Doc improvement. Closes: #672988
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 May 2012 11:05:03 -0400
41 debhelper (9.20120513) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Improve -v logging. Closes: #672448
44 * dh_builddeb: Build udebs with xz compression, level 1, extreme strategy.
45 This has been chosen to not need any more memory or cpu when uncompressing,
46 while yeilding the best compressions for udebs. Thanks, Philipp Kern.
47 * Depend on a new enough dpkg for above features. Backporters will need
48 to revert these changes.
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 May 2012 13:09:42 -0400
52 debhelper (9.20120509) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_installman: Recognize sections from mdoc .Dt entries. Closes: #670210
56 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #671598
57 * dh_install: Reorder documentation for clarity. Closes: #672109
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 May 2012 12:59:15 -0400
61 debhelper (9.20120419) unstable; urgency=low
63 * Fix compat level checking for cmake. Closes: #669181
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:35 -0400
67 debhelper (9.20120418) unstable; urgency=low
69 * cmake: Only pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS in v9.
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:39 -0400
73 debhelper (9.20120417) unstable; urgency=low
75 * cmake: Pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS. Closes: #668813
76 Thanks, Simon Ruderich for the patch and for verifying no affected
77 package is broken by this change.
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:29 -0400
81 debhelper (9.20120410) unstable; urgency=low
84 * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891
85 * Conflict with too old automake for AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. Closes: #666901
86 * dh_md5sums: Don't skip DEBIAN directories other than the control files
90 * dh_installinit: rework upstart handling to comply with new policy
91 proposal; packages will ship both an init script and an upstart job,
92 instead of just an upstart job and a symlink to a compat wrapper.
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:51:15 -0400
97 debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low
99 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
100 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
101 Added to interface documentation.
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400
106 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
108 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
112 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
114 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
115 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
116 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
117 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
119 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
120 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
121 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
122 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
123 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
128 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
131 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
132 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
133 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
134 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
135 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
136 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
140 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
142 * Typo. Closes: #653006
143 * Typo. Closes: #653339
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
147 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
150 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
151 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
152 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
153 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
154 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
158 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
160 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
161 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
162 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
163 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
164 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
165 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
166 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
167 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
171 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
173 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
177 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
179 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
180 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
181 may need to disable this.
182 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
183 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
184 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
185 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
189 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
191 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
192 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
193 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
197 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
199 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
200 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
201 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
203 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
204 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
205 to dh. Closes: #643069
206 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
207 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
211 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
213 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
214 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
215 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
216 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
217 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
219 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
220 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
221 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
223 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
224 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
225 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
226 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
227 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
228 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
229 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
230 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
231 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
232 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
233 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
234 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
235 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
236 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
237 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
241 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
243 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
248 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
250 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
251 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
253 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
259 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
261 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
262 Use override targets instead.
263 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
264 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
265 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
266 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
267 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
268 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
269 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
270 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
271 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
272 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
277 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
280 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
284 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
286 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
290 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
292 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
293 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
294 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
295 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
296 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
297 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
298 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
302 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
304 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
305 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
306 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
307 the targets. Closes: #629139
308 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
309 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
310 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
311 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
312 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
313 are already set to other values will not be changed.
315 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
316 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
317 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
318 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
319 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
324 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
326 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
330 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
332 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
333 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
334 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
338 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
340 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
341 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
342 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
343 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
344 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
345 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
346 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
347 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
352 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
355 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
356 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
357 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
359 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
360 changes may be added to that mode.
361 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
362 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
363 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
364 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
365 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
366 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
367 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
368 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
369 * Removed old example rules files.
370 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
374 * update french translation.
375 * Fix french misspelling.
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
379 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
381 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
382 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
386 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
389 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
390 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
391 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
392 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
393 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
394 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
395 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
399 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
402 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
403 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
404 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
405 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
406 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
407 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
409 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
410 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
411 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
412 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
413 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
414 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
415 (Thanks, David Prévot)
416 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
417 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
418 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
419 target fails. Closes: #601037
420 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
422 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
423 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
424 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
425 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
426 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
428 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
429 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
431 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
432 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
433 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
435 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
437 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
440 * update french translation.
441 * Fix french misspelling.
442 * French translation update after massive man page typography
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
446 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
449 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
452 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
456 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
458 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
462 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
464 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
465 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
466 introduced by the fix to #527990.
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
470 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
472 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
473 changes are planned for that mode.
474 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
475 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
476 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
477 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
478 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
479 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
480 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
481 (genesis) still uses them.
482 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
483 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
484 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
485 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
486 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
487 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
488 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
489 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
490 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
491 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
492 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
493 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
494 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
495 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
496 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
497 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
498 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
499 commands. (See #570039)
500 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
502 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
507 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
511 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
512 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
513 in control file or debhelper config files.
514 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
518 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
520 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
521 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
522 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
526 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
529 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
533 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
535 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
536 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
537 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
541 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Updated French translation.
544 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
545 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
546 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
547 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
549 * Typo. Closes: #571968
550 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
551 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
552 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
553 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
554 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
555 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
556 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
557 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
558 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
560 * dh: Improve documentation.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
564 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
566 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
567 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
568 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
572 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
574 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
575 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
579 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
581 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
582 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
586 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
588 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
589 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
590 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
591 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
592 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
593 options that they do not support.
594 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
595 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
596 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
597 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
598 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
599 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
604 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
606 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
608 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
609 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
610 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
611 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
612 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
613 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
614 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
615 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
616 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
620 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
622 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
623 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
624 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
625 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
626 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
630 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Typo. Closes: #558654
633 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
634 installed. Closes: #558782
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
638 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
640 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
641 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
642 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
643 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
644 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
645 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
649 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
651 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
652 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
653 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
654 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
658 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
661 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
662 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
666 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
668 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
672 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
674 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
675 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
676 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
677 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
678 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
679 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
680 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
681 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
682 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
683 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
684 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
685 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
686 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
687 time soon.) Closes: #554509
688 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
690 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
691 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
692 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
693 document id. Closes: #555677
694 * Typo. Closes: #555659
695 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
696 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
697 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
698 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
700 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
701 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
702 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
707 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
710 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
711 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
712 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
713 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
714 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
715 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
716 translation (#494300 part 2)
719 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
721 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
722 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
723 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
724 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
725 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
729 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
731 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
732 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
733 (It was only run once due to logging.)
734 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
735 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
736 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
737 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
738 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
739 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
740 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
741 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
742 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
743 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
747 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
751 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
754 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
755 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
759 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
761 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
762 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
763 flag with arch all/any packages.
764 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
765 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
766 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
767 situation. Closes: #540794
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
771 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
775 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
776 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
777 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
778 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
779 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
782 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
783 the default. Closes: #538201
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
788 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
790 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
792 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
793 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
794 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
795 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
796 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
798 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
799 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
800 * Above Closes: #491117
801 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
806 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
809 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
812 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
813 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
814 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
818 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
821 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
822 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
823 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
824 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
825 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
830 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
833 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
834 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
838 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
840 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
844 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
846 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
847 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
849 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
850 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
851 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
855 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
857 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
858 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
862 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
864 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
868 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
870 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
871 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
872 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
877 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
879 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
883 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
886 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
887 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
888 created by using `python' first during build and install.
890 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
895 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
897 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
901 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
903 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
904 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
908 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
910 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
914 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
916 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
920 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
922 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
923 contributed by Modestas Vainius
924 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
925 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
926 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
927 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
928 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
929 that support it. Closes: #480577
930 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
931 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
932 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
934 - Adds support for cmake.
935 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
936 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
938 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
940 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
941 that use them. The options are:
942 --sourcedir, --destdir
943 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
944 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
945 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
946 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
947 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
951 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
957 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
960 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
961 default. Closes: #537140
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
965 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
967 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
968 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
969 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
973 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
976 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
980 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
983 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
987 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
989 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
990 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
992 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
993 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
994 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
998 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
1001 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
1002 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
1003 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
1007 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
1010 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
1011 warning or deprecation message.
1012 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
1013 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
1014 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
1015 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
1016 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
1017 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
1018 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
1019 Closes: #534639, #357434
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
1023 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
1029 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
1032 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
1033 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
1034 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
1035 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
1037 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
1038 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
1039 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
1043 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
1049 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
1056 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
1059 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
1063 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
1067 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
1068 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
1070 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
1071 file support. Closes: #494914
1072 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
1076 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
1079 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
1080 parameters. Closes: #527256
1081 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
1082 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
1083 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
1087 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
1090 (Patch from #459548)
1091 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
1092 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
1093 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1097 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1100 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1101 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1102 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1106 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1109 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1110 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1112 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1113 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1114 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1118 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1122 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1126 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1129 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1130 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1131 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1132 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1137 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1143 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1146 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1147 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1148 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1149 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1150 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1152 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1153 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1154 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1155 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1156 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1157 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1161 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1164 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1165 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1166 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1167 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1168 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1170 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1174 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1176 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1180 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1182 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1183 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1184 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1185 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1186 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1187 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1188 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1189 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1190 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1191 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1192 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1196 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1198 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1199 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1201 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1202 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1203 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1204 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1206 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1207 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1211 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1213 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1214 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1215 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1216 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1217 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1218 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1219 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1221 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1222 that uses them. Affected options are:
1223 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1224 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1225 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1226 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1227 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1228 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1229 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1230 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1231 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1232 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1233 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1234 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1238 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1245 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1251 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1254 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1256 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1257 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1258 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1259 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1260 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1261 than the old method.
1262 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1264 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1265 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1266 rules (see bug #509756).
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1270 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1276 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1277 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1278 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1279 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1283 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1286 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1287 empty files. Closes: #490937
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1291 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1297 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1304 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1307 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1308 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1309 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1310 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1315 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1317 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1318 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1319 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1320 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1324 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1327 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1328 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1329 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1330 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1331 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1335 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1342 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1345 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1346 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1347 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1348 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1349 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1350 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1351 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1352 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1353 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1357 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1360 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1361 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1362 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1363 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1365 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1366 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1367 breaking backwards compatibility.
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1371 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1374 message in perl 5.10.
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1378 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1384 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1387 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1391 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1394 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1398 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1401 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1402 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1403 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1404 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1405 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1406 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1407 logging by dh_listpackages.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1411 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1414 run and there are no packages of that type.
1415 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1416 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1417 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1418 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1420 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1421 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1425 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1428 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1429 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1433 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1436 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1437 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1439 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1440 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1441 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1442 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1443 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1444 planned but not yet implemented.)
1445 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1446 if the Makefile has such a target.
1447 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1448 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1449 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1450 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1451 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1452 but not yet implemented.)
1453 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1454 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1455 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1456 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1457 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1459 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1461 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1462 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1464 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1465 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1466 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1471 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1474 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1475 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1479 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1481 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1482 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1483 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1487 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1493 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1499 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1502 just those installed by the program.
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1506 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1509 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1510 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1514 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1517 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1518 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1519 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1520 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1524 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1527 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1528 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1532 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1535 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1536 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1540 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1543 with policy. Closes: #461392
1544 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1545 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1546 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1547 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1548 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1552 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1555 Closes: #460340, #460351
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1559 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1562 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1563 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1564 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1565 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1569 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1572 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1573 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1574 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1575 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1576 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1577 package build directory won't work.
1578 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1579 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1580 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1581 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1582 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1583 mode. Closes: #459426
1584 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1589 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1592 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1596 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1600 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1601 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1602 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1603 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1604 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1605 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1609 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1612 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1613 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1614 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1615 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1619 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1622 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1623 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1624 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1625 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1626 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1630 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1633 debian/package.triggers files.
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1637 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1640 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1644 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1647 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1648 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1649 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1650 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1655 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1658 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1662 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1665 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1666 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1668 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1673 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1677 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1678 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1679 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1683 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1690 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1697 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1700 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1702 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1703 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1704 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1706 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1707 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1708 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1712 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1715 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1716 * Update urls to web page.
1717 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1718 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1719 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1720 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1724 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1727 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1728 - typo in alternatives call
1729 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1731 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1732 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1736 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1739 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1744 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1750 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1756 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1759 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1761 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1762 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1763 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1764 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1765 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1766 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1767 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1768 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1769 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1770 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1771 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1775 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1778 package install. Closes: #415717
1779 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1780 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1781 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1782 script and then remove the python files.
1783 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1784 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1785 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1786 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1787 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1788 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1789 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1790 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1791 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1792 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1793 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1794 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1795 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1799 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Correct typo in french translation
1805 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1806 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1808 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1810 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1811 Closes: #406921, #381940
1812 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1814 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1815 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1816 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1817 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1818 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1819 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1820 specified). Closes: #381851
1821 * Misc minor changes.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1825 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1832 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1833 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1837 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1843 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1844 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1847 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1848 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1850 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1851 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1852 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1853 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1857 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1860 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1863 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1867 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1873 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1879 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1880 a difficult situation.
1881 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1882 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1883 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1884 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1885 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1886 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1887 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1888 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1889 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1890 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1894 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Non-maintainer upload.
1897 * Update of dh_python
1898 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1899 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1901 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1902 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1903 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1904 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1905 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1907 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1909 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * Non-maintainer upload.
1912 * Update of dh_python
1913 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1914 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1915 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1916 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1917 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1918 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1919 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1920 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1921 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1922 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1924 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1925 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1926 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1927 the not too-distant future).
1928 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1929 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1930 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1931 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1932 thus made the build fail.
1934 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1936 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Non-maintainer upload.
1939 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1941 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1943 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1946 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1947 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1948 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1949 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1950 package. Closes: #301424
1951 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1952 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1953 fonts). Closes: #372686
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1957 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1963 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1964 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1965 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1966 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1967 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1968 above, but already depends on that.
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1972 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1975 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1976 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1977 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1978 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1979 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1983 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1989 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1995 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1996 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
2000 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
2003 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
2007 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
2011 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
2012 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
2013 new version (0.24.1).
2014 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
2015 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
2018 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
2019 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
2020 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
2021 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
2022 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
2023 new directory on their own.
2024 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
2025 * Fix broken directory removal code.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
2029 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
2032 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
2033 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
2034 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
2035 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
2039 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
2042 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
2043 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
2044 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
2045 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
2046 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
2050 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
2056 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * Typo. Closes: #358904
2060 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
2061 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
2065 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2066 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
2070 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
2072 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
2073 || exit 0 instead of the intended
2075 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
2076 ignored. Closes: #337664
2078 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
2083 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
2089 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
2094 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
2095 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2096 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2097 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2098 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2099 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2100 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2104 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2107 version. Closes: #350607
2108 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2109 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2110 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2111 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2115 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2118 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2119 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2120 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2124 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2131 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2137 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2140 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2144 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2147 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2148 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2149 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2150 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2151 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2152 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2156 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2159 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2160 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2165 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2168 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2172 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2175 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2179 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2182 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2183 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2184 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2185 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2186 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2187 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2191 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2195 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2196 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2197 link. Closes: #346405
2198 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2200 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2201 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2202 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2203 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2204 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2205 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2206 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2210 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2217 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2223 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2226 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2230 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2233 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2238 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2242 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2243 installed. Closes: #342033
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2247 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2250 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2251 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2252 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2257 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2263 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2269 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2273 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2274 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2275 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2279 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2282 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2287 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2294 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2300 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2303 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2304 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2305 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2306 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2307 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2308 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2309 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2311 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2315 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2318 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2319 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2323 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2326 in standard man dirs.
2327 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2331 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2337 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2340 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2345 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2352 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2359 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2362 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2363 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2367 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2370 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2371 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2372 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2374 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2376 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2382 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2388 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2391 mode. Closes: #324161
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2395 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2398 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2399 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2400 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2401 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2406 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2409 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2410 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2411 is necesary for sanity.
2412 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2413 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2418 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2420 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2421 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2425 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2428 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2432 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2438 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2441 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2442 released, so use at your own risk.
2443 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2444 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2446 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2447 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2448 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2449 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2450 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2451 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2452 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2453 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2454 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2455 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2456 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2457 including twice per config file line now..
2458 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2459 and simplfy the rules file.
2460 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2461 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2462 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2464 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2465 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2469 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2472 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2476 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2479 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2483 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2486 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2490 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2493 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2494 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2495 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2496 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2497 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2498 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2502 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2505 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2506 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2507 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2512 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2515 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2516 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2521 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2524 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2525 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2526 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2531 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2534 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2535 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2536 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2540 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2546 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2553 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2556 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2557 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2558 unknown. Closes: #282924
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2562 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2569 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * Spanish man page updates.
2572 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2577 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2583 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2586 * dh_desktop: reindent
2587 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2588 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2592 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2598 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2600 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2604 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2606 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2610 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2613 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2614 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2618 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2624 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2630 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2637 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2640 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2644 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2647 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2648 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2649 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2650 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2651 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2652 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2654 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2655 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2656 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2657 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2658 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2659 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2660 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2661 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2662 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2663 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2664 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2665 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2666 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2667 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2668 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2669 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2673 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2680 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2683 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2687 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2690 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2694 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2697 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2701 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2704 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2708 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2714 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2720 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2726 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2729 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2730 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2731 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2735 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2738 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2742 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2745 but occasionally right and necessary.
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2749 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2752 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2753 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2754 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2755 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2756 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2760 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2763 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2765 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2766 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2767 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2768 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2769 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2770 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2771 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2772 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2773 postinst scripts for udebs.
2774 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2778 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2781 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2783 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2784 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2788 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2794 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2801 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2808 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2811 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2815 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2818 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2822 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2825 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2828 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2829 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2833 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2839 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2842 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2846 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2849 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2850 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2851 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2853 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2855 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2856 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2857 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2861 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2864 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2869 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2872 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2873 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2874 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2879 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2885 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2891 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2894 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2895 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2896 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2897 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2898 associated -dbg packages.
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2902 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2905 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2909 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2912 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2916 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2919 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2923 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2926 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2931 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2934 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2938 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2941 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2946 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2949 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2953 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2957 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2958 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2959 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2960 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2961 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2962 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2963 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2964 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2965 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2966 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2970 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2973 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2978 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2981 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2982 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2986 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2989 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2990 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2995 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2998 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
3002 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
3005 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
3009 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
3012 out section number. Closes: #204731
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
3016 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
3023 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
3029 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
3035 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * Typo, Closes: #203907
3038 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
3039 removal. Closes: #204286
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
3043 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
3046 renaming. Closes: #203548
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
3050 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
3053 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
3054 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
3058 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
3064 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
3070 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
3076 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
3079 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
3080 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
3081 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
3085 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
3088 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
3089 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
3093 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3099 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3106 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3109 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3114 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3117 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3121 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3124 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3126 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3127 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3131 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3134 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3139 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3142 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3146 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3152 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3154 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3158 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3161 it break hard links (see #188663).
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3165 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3168 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3172 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3178 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3182 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3183 debconf-mergetemplates
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3187 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3190 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3194 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3197 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3201 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3204 * Update debhelper(1).
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3208 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3211 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3212 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3213 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3214 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3215 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3219 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3222 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3223 the shell. Closes: #178524
3224 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3228 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3231 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3235 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3238 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3242 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3245 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3246 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3247 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3248 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3253 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3256 files from installation.
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3260 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3263 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3264 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3268 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3271 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3275 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3278 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3282 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3288 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3294 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3298 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3299 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3301 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3305 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3308 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3309 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3310 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3311 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3315 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3318 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3322 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3325 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3326 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3330 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3334 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3339 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3345 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3347 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3349 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3350 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3351 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3356 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3359 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3360 practice. Closes: #163303
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3364 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3370 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3377 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3380 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3382 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3383 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3384 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3385 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3386 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3390 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3393 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3398 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3404 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3411 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3414 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3419 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3425 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3431 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3437 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3444 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3447 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3448 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3449 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3450 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3455 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3461 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3468 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3471 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3472 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3476 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3478 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3479 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3480 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3481 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3482 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3483 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3487 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3490 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3492 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3497 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3500 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3504 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3507 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3508 right thing. Closes: #150644
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3512 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * Stupid, evil typo.
3515 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3519 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3526 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3529 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3530 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3535 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3541 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3544 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3548 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3551 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3552 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3557 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3560 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3564 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3570 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3573 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3574 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3578 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3584 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * Removing perl warning message.
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3590 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3593 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3594 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3595 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3596 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3597 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3598 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3599 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3600 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3604 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3610 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3617 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3619 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3620 debconf-mergetemplate.
3621 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3622 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3626 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3629 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3630 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3631 dh_install, which ...
3632 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3633 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3634 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3635 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3636 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3637 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3638 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3639 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3640 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3641 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3642 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3643 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3644 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3645 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3646 other minor changes.
3647 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3648 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3649 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3650 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3651 course there's -X ..)
3652 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3653 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3654 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3656 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3657 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3658 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3659 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3660 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3665 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3667 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3671 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3674 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3678 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3684 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3690 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3696 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3702 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3705 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3706 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3707 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3708 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3710 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3711 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3715 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3721 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3724 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3728 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3731 upset. Closes: #131322
3733 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3735 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3738 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3739 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3740 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3741 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3742 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3743 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3744 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3745 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3746 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3747 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3748 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3749 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3750 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3751 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3752 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3754 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3758 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3760 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3761 - Better indenting of generated code.
3762 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3766 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3770 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3771 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3772 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3773 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3774 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3775 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3776 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3780 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3783 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3787 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3789 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3790 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3791 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3792 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3793 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3794 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3795 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3796 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3797 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3798 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3799 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3800 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3801 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3802 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3803 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3804 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3809 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3815 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3818 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3819 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3823 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3826 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3827 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3831 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3837 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3840 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3841 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3842 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3843 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3844 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3849 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3855 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3858 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3862 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3865 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3870 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3876 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3878 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3879 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3883 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3885 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3889 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3893 Also some indentation fixes.
3895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3897 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3899 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3900 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3901 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3902 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3903 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3904 Closes: #106514, #85520
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3908 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3910 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3914 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3920 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3926 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3932 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3938 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3941 change it in debhelper v4..
3943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3945 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3947 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3951 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3953 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3954 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3958 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3960 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3961 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3965 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3971 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3974 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3975 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3976 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3977 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3978 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3979 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3980 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3981 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3982 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3983 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3984 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3985 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3989 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3992 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3996 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3998 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
4003 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4005 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
4006 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
4007 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
4008 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
4009 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
4010 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
4011 program those options go to. So, for example,
4012 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
4013 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
4014 something complex. Closes: #89311
4015 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
4019 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
4022 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
4023 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
4024 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
4028 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
4031 through loop. Closes: #98598
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
4035 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * Missing semi-colon.
4038 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
4039 this (dh_* should be called, really).
4041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
4043 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4045 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
4046 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
4047 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
4048 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
4052 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
4055 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
4056 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
4060 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
4063 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
4067 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
4070 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
4071 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
4075 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
4078 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
4079 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
4080 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
4084 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
4087 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
4088 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
4089 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
4093 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4096 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4100 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4106 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4112 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4114 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4118 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4120 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4124 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4127 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4131 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4134 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4135 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4136 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4137 followed. Closes: #85483
4139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4141 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4143 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4144 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4145 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4149 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4152 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4153 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4154 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4155 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4156 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4157 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4158 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4159 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4160 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4161 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4162 Closes: #88464, #77743
4163 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4164 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4165 us to deal with that gracefully.
4166 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4168 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4169 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4170 a while, Closes: #51225
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4174 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4180 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4183 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4187 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4191 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4196 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4199 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4200 don't make packlist files.
4201 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4202 debhelper coding standards.
4203 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4204 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4208 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4210 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4211 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4215 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4217 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4218 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4219 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4220 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4221 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4222 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4223 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4224 but is mildly deprecated.
4225 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4226 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4227 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4228 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4229 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4230 switching to statoverrides..
4231 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4232 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4233 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4234 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4235 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4236 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4238 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4239 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4240 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4241 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4242 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4243 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4244 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4245 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4246 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4248 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4249 variable names, pod man pages).
4250 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4251 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4252 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4253 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4254 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4255 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4256 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4260 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4262 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4266 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4273 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4275 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4276 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4280 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4282 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4283 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4284 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4288 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4290 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4291 they were previously ignored.
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4295 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4297 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4298 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4302 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4304 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4305 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4306 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4310 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4312 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4316 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4318 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4319 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4323 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4325 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4326 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4327 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4328 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4329 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4330 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4331 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4332 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4333 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4334 it is an obsolete program.
4336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4338 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4340 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4344 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4348 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4350 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4354 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4356 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4358 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4360 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4364 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4370 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * typo: Closes, #78567
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4376 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4382 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4384 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4388 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4390 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4391 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4392 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4393 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4394 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4395 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4399 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4402 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4407 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4410 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4411 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4412 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4413 backwards-compatibility.
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4417 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4420 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4421 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4422 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4423 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4424 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4425 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4427 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4428 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4429 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4431 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4433 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4434 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4435 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4436 should now be raised to severity important..
4437 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4438 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4442 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4445 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4450 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4456 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4462 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4468 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4475 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4478 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4479 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4480 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4481 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4485 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4491 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4494 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4495 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4496 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4497 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4498 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4499 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4504 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4507 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4511 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4517 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4519 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4520 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4525 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4528 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4529 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4530 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4531 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4535 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4539 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4542 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4545 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4546 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4549 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4551 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4552 the TODO entry about it.
4554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4556 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4558 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4563 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4565 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4566 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4567 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4571 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4573 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4574 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4575 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4576 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4577 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4581 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4587 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4594 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4597 (this appears to be logal).
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4601 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4604 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4605 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4606 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4607 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4611 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4617 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4620 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4621 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4622 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4623 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4627 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4633 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4636 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4640 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4647 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4650 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4651 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4652 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4657 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4664 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4666 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4670 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4673 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4674 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4675 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4676 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4677 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4678 notice until v2 is complete.
4679 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
4680 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4681 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4682 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4683 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4684 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4686 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4687 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4688 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4689 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4693 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4695 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4699 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4701 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4706 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4708 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4709 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4713 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4720 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4722 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4723 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4724 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4725 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4726 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4731 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4734 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4735 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4736 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4741 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4743 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4744 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4745 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4749 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4752 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4756 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4759 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4763 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4770 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4772 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4773 depend on the build and install targets.
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4777 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4780 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4784 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4791 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4797 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4803 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4806 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4807 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4808 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4809 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4810 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4811 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4813 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4814 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4815 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4816 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4817 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4818 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4819 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4823 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4829 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4835 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4838 right place. Closes: #55065
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4842 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4849 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4851 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4852 * Copyright date updates.
4854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4856 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4858 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4859 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4864 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4866 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4870 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4877 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4883 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4885 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4889 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4895 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4898 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4899 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4900 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4901 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4902 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4903 bits until all files have been registered.
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4907 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * dh_installmanpages:
4910 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4911 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4912 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4913 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4914 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4915 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4916 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4917 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4918 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4919 otherwise change the result at all.
4921 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4922 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4923 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4924 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4925 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4930 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4936 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4939 act on files that don't exist.
4940 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4941 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4942 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4944 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4945 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4946 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4947 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4951 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4957 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4963 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4966 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4970 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4973 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4975 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4976 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4977 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4981 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4984 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4985 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4986 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4987 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4988 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4989 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4990 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4992 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4994 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4998 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5000 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
5003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
5005 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5007 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
5009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
5011 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5013 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
5015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
5017 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5019 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
5020 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
5022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
5024 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5026 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
5030 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5032 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
5036 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
5039 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
5040 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
5041 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
5042 I made some changes, though:
5043 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
5044 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
5045 that is a clear violation of policy.
5046 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
5047 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
5048 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
5049 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
5050 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
5051 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
5052 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
5053 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
5054 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
5056 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
5060 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5062 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
5066 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5068 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
5069 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
5071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
5073 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5075 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
5076 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
5077 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
5080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
5082 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5084 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
5088 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
5095 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5098 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5099 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5100 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5101 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5102 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5103 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5104 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5108 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5114 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5116 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5118 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5119 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5123 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5129 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5131 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5132 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5136 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5138 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5139 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5140 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5144 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5146 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5151 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5155 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5159 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5161 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5162 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5163 for the dependancies to be generated.
5165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5167 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5169 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5170 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5174 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5177 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5178 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5179 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5184 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5187 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5188 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5192 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5194 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5198 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5200 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5204 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5206 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5207 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5211 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5213 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5217 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5220 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5221 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5222 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5223 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5224 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5225 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5226 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5227 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5228 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5229 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5230 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5231 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5235 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5237 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5238 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5239 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5241 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5242 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5243 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5244 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5245 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5246 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5248 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5249 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5253 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5255 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5256 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5260 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5262 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5267 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5270 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5275 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5277 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5278 for building debhelper.
5279 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5283 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5290 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5293 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5297 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5299 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5300 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5301 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5302 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5303 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5304 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5305 it's always available.
5307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5309 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5311 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5312 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5313 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5314 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5318 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5320 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5321 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5322 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5326 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5332 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5334 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5335 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5339 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5345 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5348 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5349 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5350 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5354 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5356 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5357 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5362 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5364 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5365 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5366 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5368 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5369 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5373 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5375 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5379 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5385 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5387 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5388 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5392 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5394 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5395 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5396 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5398 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5402 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5404 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5405 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5406 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5407 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5411 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5413 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5414 things if CDPATH is set.
5416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5418 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5420 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5424 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5426 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5427 seems to make sense for the transition.
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5431 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5433 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5434 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5439 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5441 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5442 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5443 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5447 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5450 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5454 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5456 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5457 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5458 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5459 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5460 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5464 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5466 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5470 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5472 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5473 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5474 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5475 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5476 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5477 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5478 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5479 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5480 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5481 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5482 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5487 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5490 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5491 * README: mention doc/v2
5492 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5493 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5497 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5499 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5500 be using this script RSN.
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5504 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5507 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5508 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5509 more than 1 init script.
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5513 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5516 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5520 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5522 * Changed perl version detection.
5523 * Changed call to find.
5525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5527 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5529 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5530 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5532 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5537 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5539 * Really include dh_installpam.
5541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5543 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5545 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5546 * Wrote man page for same.
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5550 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5553 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5554 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5559 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5561 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5566 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5569 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5570 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5571 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5572 x bit was being set!
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5576 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5579 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5580 well. (Closes: 38900)
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5584 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5587 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5588 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5592 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5594 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5598 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5605 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5611 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5613 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5614 help from Julian Gilbey.
5615 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5616 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5617 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5618 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5619 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5620 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5621 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5626 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5628 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5632 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5634 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5639 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5645 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5647 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5651 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5654 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5658 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5661 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5665 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5668 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5672 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5674 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5678 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5681 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5685 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5687 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5691 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5693 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5697 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5699 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5700 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5701 may be deleted. (#35845)
5703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5705 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5707 * Various man page enhancements.
5708 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5713 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5716 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5717 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5721 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5723 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5724 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5725 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5726 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5728 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5729 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5734 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5736 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5740 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * Another very minor typo fix.
5744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5746 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5748 * Very minor typo fix.
5750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5752 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5754 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5755 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5756 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5760 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5762 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5766 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5768 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5769 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5770 variables properly (#34850).
5772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5774 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5776 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5780 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5782 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5783 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5784 (automatically generated by build process).
5786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5788 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5790 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5794 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5796 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5797 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5798 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5800 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5804 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5806 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5807 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5811 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5813 * README: minor typo fix.
5815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5817 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5819 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5820 leave it at that. :-)
5822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5824 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5826 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5830 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5832 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5836 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5838 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5839 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5840 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5841 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5845 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5847 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5848 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5852 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5854 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5855 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5859 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5861 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5862 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5863 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5864 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5865 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5869 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5871 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5872 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5873 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5874 Craig Small for spotting this.
5876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5878 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5880 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5881 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5882 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5886 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5888 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5892 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5894 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5895 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5899 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5901 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5902 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5903 working on the last version of debhelper.
5905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5907 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5909 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5910 being made. (#23255)
5912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5914 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5916 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5920 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5922 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5923 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5927 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5929 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5930 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5931 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5932 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5933 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5937 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5939 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5940 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5941 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5942 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5943 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5945 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5946 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5948 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5953 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5955 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5959 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5961 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5965 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5967 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5968 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5969 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5970 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5971 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5972 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5973 suidregister actually supports it.
5974 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5975 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5979 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5981 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5986 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5988 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5989 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5990 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5991 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5992 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5993 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5994 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5995 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5999 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
6001 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
6002 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
6004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
6006 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
6008 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
6009 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
6010 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
6011 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
6012 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
6014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
6016 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
6018 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
6019 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
6021 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
6022 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
6023 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
6024 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
6025 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
6026 effect, either. (#30118)
6028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
6030 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
6032 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
6034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
6036 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
6038 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
6039 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
6040 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
6042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
6044 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
6046 * Spelling and typo fixes.
6048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
6050 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
6052 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
6053 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
6054 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
6055 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
6056 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
6058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
6060 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
6062 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
6063 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
6064 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
6066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
6068 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
6070 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
6072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
6074 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
6076 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
6077 packages, painlessly.
6079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
6081 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
6083 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
6085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
6087 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
6089 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
6091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
6093 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
6095 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6099 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6101 * The perl conversion is complete.
6103 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6105 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6106 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6107 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6112 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6114 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6115 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6116 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6117 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6121 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6123 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6124 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6126 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6128 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6129 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6133 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6135 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6136 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6137 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6141 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6143 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6147 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6149 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6150 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6151 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6152 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6153 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6154 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6158 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6160 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6161 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6162 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6163 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6164 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6168 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6170 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6171 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6175 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6177 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6178 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6179 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6180 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6181 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6182 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6183 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6184 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6185 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6189 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6191 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6195 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6197 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6198 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6199 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6200 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6205 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6207 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6208 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6212 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6214 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6215 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6219 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6221 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6222 sections of shared libraries.
6223 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6224 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6225 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6226 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6227 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6228 things you don't want them to.
6229 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6230 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6234 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6236 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6237 shared libraries. (#26414)
6239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6241 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6243 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6244 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6245 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6246 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6250 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6252 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6254 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6256 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6257 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6258 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6259 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6260 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6264 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6266 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6267 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6271 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6273 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6274 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6275 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6280 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6282 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6283 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6287 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6289 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6290 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6291 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6292 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6293 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6294 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6296 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6297 remove debian/files properly.
6298 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6299 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6300 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6301 * Removed bogus menu file.
6303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6305 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6307 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6308 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6312 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6314 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6315 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6316 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6317 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6318 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6319 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6320 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6324 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6326 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6327 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6328 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6329 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6330 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6334 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6336 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6341 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6343 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6344 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6345 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6347 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6348 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6349 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6350 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6351 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6352 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6356 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6358 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6359 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6360 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6361 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6362 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6363 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6364 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6365 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6366 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6367 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6368 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6369 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6370 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6371 passed any switches.
6372 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6376 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6378 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6379 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6380 at all for a long while.
6381 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6382 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6383 large chunks in the process.
6384 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6385 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6386 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6391 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6393 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6394 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6396 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6401 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6403 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6404 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6405 that don't always have the same files in them.
6406 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6407 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6408 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6412 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6414 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6416 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6417 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6418 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6419 updating 27 man pages.
6420 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6421 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6422 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6423 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6424 programs act on. (#25247)
6426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6428 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6432 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6433 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6434 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6435 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6436 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6437 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6442 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6444 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6449 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6451 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6456 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6458 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6459 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6463 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6465 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6469 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6471 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6472 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6473 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6474 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6475 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6476 package by accident.
6477 * Is version 1.0 next?
6479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6481 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6483 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6484 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6485 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6489 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6491 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6492 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6493 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6494 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6495 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6496 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6498 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6503 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6505 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6506 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6507 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6511 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6513 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6514 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6518 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6520 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6521 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6522 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6527 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6529 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6533 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6535 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6536 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6537 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6542 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6544 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6548 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6550 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6551 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6552 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6553 past week. Thanks, guys!
6555 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6556 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6557 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6558 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6559 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6560 would do in the same situation.
6561 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6562 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6564 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6566 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6567 permissions changed.
6568 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6569 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6570 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6571 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6572 files are treated identically.
6573 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6574 * Minor man page fixes.
6575 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6576 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6577 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6581 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6583 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6584 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6585 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6586 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6587 use -X multiple times, too.
6588 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6589 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6593 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6595 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6596 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6597 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6601 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6603 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6604 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6608 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6610 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6611 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6612 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6613 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6614 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6615 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6616 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6617 shape if you're starting a new package.
6619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6621 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6623 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6624 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6628 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6630 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6631 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6632 because of missing symlinks.
6634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6636 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6638 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6642 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6644 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6645 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6646 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6647 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6648 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6649 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6651 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6652 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6656 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6658 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6659 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6660 to be changed after the fact :-)
6661 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6665 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6667 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6668 no version string after the -V.
6670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6672 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6674 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6675 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6680 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6682 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6683 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6687 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6689 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6690 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6691 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6692 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6693 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6694 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6695 I always welcome corrections!
6697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6699 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6701 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6705 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6707 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6708 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6709 * Documented this new switch.
6711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6713 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6715 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6716 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6717 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6718 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6719 no packages use the old behavior.
6721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6723 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6725 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6726 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6727 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6731 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6733 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6734 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6738 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6740 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6744 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6746 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6747 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6751 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6753 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6754 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6755 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6756 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6760 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6762 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6766 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6768 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6769 into the source package by accident.
6771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6773 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6775 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6776 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6777 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6778 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6779 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6780 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6781 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6786 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6788 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6790 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6791 inspired to implement some of it.
6792 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6796 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6798 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6799 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6803 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6805 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6806 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6807 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6811 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6813 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6814 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6815 have done.) (#17598)
6817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6819 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6821 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6825 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6827 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6831 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6833 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6834 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6838 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6840 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6841 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6842 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6846 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6848 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6849 argument processor in perl.
6850 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6851 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6852 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6853 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6857 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6859 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6860 type directories. (#16933)
6861 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6862 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6863 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6864 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6865 are supported. (#16935)
6866 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6871 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6873 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6874 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6878 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6880 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6882 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6883 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6884 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6885 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6886 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6887 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6891 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6893 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6894 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6895 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6897 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6898 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6899 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6900 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6901 a given package, or -i or -a.
6902 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6903 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6904 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6905 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6906 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6907 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6908 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6909 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6910 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6912 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6913 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6914 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6918 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6920 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6921 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6922 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6927 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6929 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6930 does not have a section.
6932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6934 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6936 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6937 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6938 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6939 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6943 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6945 * Fixed typo #16215.
6947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6949 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6951 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6952 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6953 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6954 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6955 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6956 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6961 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6963 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6964 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6965 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6966 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6971 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6973 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6977 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6979 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6983 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6985 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6986 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6987 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6988 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6989 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6990 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6991 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6995 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6997 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
7001 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
7003 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
7004 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
7006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
7008 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
7010 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
7011 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
7012 the dh_* programs (#15497).
7013 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
7015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
7017 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
7019 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
7020 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
7022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
7024 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
7026 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
7028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
7030 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
7032 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
7033 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
7035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
7037 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
7039 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
7040 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
7042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
7044 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
7046 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
7048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
7050 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
7052 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
7053 postinst, postrm, etc.
7055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
7057 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
7059 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
7061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
7063 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
7065 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
7066 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
7067 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
7068 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
7069 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
7070 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
7072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
7074 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
7076 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
7077 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
7078 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
7080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
7082 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
7084 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
7085 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
7087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
7089 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
7091 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
7092 installing package files into.
7093 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7098 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7100 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7102 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7106 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7108 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7112 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7114 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7115 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7119 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7121 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7122 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7123 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7124 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7125 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7129 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7131 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7132 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7133 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7134 multiple binary packages.
7135 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7136 should rebuild them with this version.
7137 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7141 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7143 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7144 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7148 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7150 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7151 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7155 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7157 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7158 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7159 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7160 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7161 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7162 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7163 debian/README.debian.
7164 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7165 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7166 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7167 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7168 in a few situations.)
7170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7172 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7174 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7178 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7180 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7184 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7186 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7187 * Fixed several man pages.
7189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7191 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7193 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7194 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7195 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7199 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7201 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7202 is ready for general use.
7203 * Added man pages for all commands.
7204 * Multiple binary package support.
7205 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7206 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7207 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7209 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7210 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7211 auto-installed as parameters.
7212 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7214 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7217 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7218 the package build directory it is to act on.
7219 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7220 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7221 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7225 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7227 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7228 ready to replace debstd.
7230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400