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
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:51:07 -0600
9 debhelper (9.20120608) unstable; urgency=low
11 * dh: When there's an -indep override target without -arch, or vice versa,
12 avoid acting on packages covered by the override target when running
13 the command for packages not covered by it. Closes: #676462
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:15:48 -0400
17 debhelper (9.20120528) unstable; urgency=low
19 * dh_installcatalogs: Turn /etc/sgml/$package.cat into conffiles
20 and introduce dependency on trigger-based sgml-base. Closes: #477751
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 May 2012 13:40:26 -0400
25 debhelper (9.20120523) unstable; urgency=low
27 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #673629 Thanks, Omar Campagne
28 * Set Multi-Arch: foreign. Closes: #674193
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 May 2012 14:55:48 -0400
32 debhelper (9.20120518) unstable; urgency=low
34 * Fix versioned dependency on dpkg for xz options. Closes: #672895
35 * dh_link: Doc improvement. Closes: #672988
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 May 2012 11:05:03 -0400
39 debhelper (9.20120513) unstable; urgency=low
41 * Improve -v logging. Closes: #672448
42 * dh_builddeb: Build udebs with xz compression, level 1, extreme strategy.
43 This has been chosen to not need any more memory or cpu when uncompressing,
44 while yeilding the best compressions for udebs. Thanks, Philipp Kern.
45 * Depend on a new enough dpkg for above features. Backporters will need
46 to revert these changes.
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 May 2012 13:09:42 -0400
50 debhelper (9.20120509) unstable; urgency=low
52 * dh_installman: Recognize sections from mdoc .Dt entries. Closes: #670210
54 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #671598
55 * dh_install: Reorder documentation for clarity. Closes: #672109
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 May 2012 12:59:15 -0400
59 debhelper (9.20120419) unstable; urgency=low
61 * Fix compat level checking for cmake. Closes: #669181
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:35 -0400
65 debhelper (9.20120418) unstable; urgency=low
67 * cmake: Only pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS in v9.
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:39 -0400
71 debhelper (9.20120417) unstable; urgency=low
73 * cmake: Pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS. Closes: #668813
74 Thanks, Simon Ruderich for the patch and for verifying no affected
75 package is broken by this change.
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:29 -0400
79 debhelper (9.20120410) unstable; urgency=low
82 * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891
83 * Conflict with too old automake for AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. Closes: #666901
84 * dh_md5sums: Don't skip DEBIAN directories other than the control files
88 * dh_installinit: rework upstart handling to comply with new policy
89 proposal; packages will ship both an init script and an upstart job,
90 instead of just an upstart job and a symlink to a compat wrapper.
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:51:15 -0400
95 debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low
97 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
98 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
99 Added to interface documentation.
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400
104 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
110 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
112 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
113 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
114 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
115 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
117 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
118 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
119 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
120 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
121 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
126 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
128 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
129 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
130 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
131 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
132 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
133 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
134 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
138 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
140 * Typo. Closes: #653006
141 * Typo. Closes: #653339
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
145 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
147 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
148 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
149 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
150 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
151 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
152 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
156 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
158 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
159 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
160 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
161 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
162 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
163 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
164 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
165 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
169 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
171 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
175 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
177 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
178 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
179 may need to disable this.
180 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
181 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
182 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
183 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
187 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
189 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
190 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
191 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
195 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
197 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
198 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
199 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
201 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
202 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
203 to dh. Closes: #643069
204 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
205 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
209 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
211 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
212 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
213 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
214 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
215 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
217 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
218 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
219 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
221 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
222 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
223 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
224 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
225 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
226 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
227 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
228 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
229 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
230 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
231 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
232 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
233 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
234 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
235 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
239 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
241 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
246 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
248 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
249 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
251 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
257 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
259 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
260 Use override targets instead.
261 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
262 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
263 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
264 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
265 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
266 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
267 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
268 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
269 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
270 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
275 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
277 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
278 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
282 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
288 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
290 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
291 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
292 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
293 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
294 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
295 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
296 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
300 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
303 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
304 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
305 the targets. Closes: #629139
306 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
307 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
308 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
309 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
310 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
311 are already set to other values will not be changed.
313 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
314 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
315 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
316 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
317 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
322 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
328 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
330 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
331 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
332 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
336 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
339 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
340 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
341 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
342 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
343 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
344 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
345 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
350 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
353 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
354 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
355 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
357 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
358 changes may be added to that mode.
359 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
360 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
361 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
362 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
363 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
364 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
365 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
366 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
367 * Removed old example rules files.
368 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
372 * update french translation.
373 * Fix french misspelling.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
377 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
379 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
380 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
384 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
386 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
387 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
388 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
389 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
390 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
391 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
392 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
393 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
397 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
400 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
401 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
402 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
403 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
404 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
405 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
407 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
408 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
409 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
410 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
411 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
412 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
413 (Thanks, David Prévot)
414 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
415 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
416 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
417 target fails. Closes: #601037
418 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
420 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
421 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
422 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
423 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
424 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
426 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
427 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
429 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
430 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
431 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
433 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
435 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
438 * update french translation.
439 * Fix french misspelling.
440 * French translation update after massive man page typography
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
444 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
447 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
450 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
454 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
456 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
460 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
462 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
463 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
464 introduced by the fix to #527990.
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
468 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
471 changes are planned for that mode.
472 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
473 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
474 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
475 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
476 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
477 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
478 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
479 (genesis) still uses them.
480 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
481 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
482 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
483 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
484 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
485 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
486 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
487 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
488 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
489 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
490 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
491 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
492 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
493 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
494 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
495 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
496 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
497 commands. (See #570039)
498 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
500 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
505 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
509 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
510 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
511 in control file or debhelper config files.
512 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
516 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
518 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
519 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
520 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
524 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
526 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
527 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
531 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
533 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
534 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
535 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
539 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
541 * Updated French translation.
542 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
543 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
544 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
545 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
547 * Typo. Closes: #571968
548 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
549 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
550 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
551 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
552 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
553 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
554 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
555 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
556 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
558 * dh: Improve documentation.
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
562 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
564 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
565 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
566 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
570 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
573 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
577 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
580 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
584 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
587 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
588 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
589 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
590 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
591 options that they do not support.
592 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
593 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
594 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
595 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
596 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
597 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
602 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
606 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
607 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
608 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
609 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
610 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
611 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
612 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
613 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
614 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
618 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
620 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
621 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
622 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
623 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
624 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
628 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
630 * Typo. Closes: #558654
631 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
632 installed. Closes: #558782
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
636 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
639 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
640 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
641 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
642 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
643 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
647 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
649 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
650 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
651 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
652 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
656 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
658 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
659 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
660 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
664 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
666 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
670 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
672 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
673 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
674 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
675 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
676 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
677 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
678 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
679 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
680 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
681 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
682 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
683 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
684 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
685 time soon.) Closes: #554509
686 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
688 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
689 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
690 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
691 document id. Closes: #555677
692 * Typo. Closes: #555659
693 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
694 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
695 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
696 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
698 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
699 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
700 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
705 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
708 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
709 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
710 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
711 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
712 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
713 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
714 translation (#494300 part 2)
717 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
719 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
720 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
721 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
722 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
723 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
727 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
729 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
730 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
731 (It was only run once due to logging.)
732 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
733 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
734 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
735 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
736 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
737 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
738 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
739 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
740 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
741 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
745 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
748 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
749 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
752 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
753 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
757 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
760 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
761 flag with arch all/any packages.
762 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
763 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
764 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
765 situation. Closes: #540794
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
769 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
773 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
774 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
775 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
776 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
777 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
780 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
781 the default. Closes: #538201
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
786 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
790 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
791 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
792 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
793 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
794 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
796 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
797 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
798 * Above Closes: #491117
799 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
804 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
807 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
810 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
811 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
812 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
816 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
819 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
820 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
821 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
822 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
823 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
828 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
830 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
831 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
832 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
836 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
838 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
842 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
844 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
845 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
847 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
848 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
849 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
853 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
855 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
856 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
860 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
866 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
868 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
869 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
870 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
875 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
877 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
881 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
884 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
885 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
886 created by using `python' first during build and install.
888 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
893 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
895 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
899 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
901 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
902 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
906 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
908 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
912 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
914 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
918 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
920 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
921 contributed by Modestas Vainius
922 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
923 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
924 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
925 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
926 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
927 that support it. Closes: #480577
928 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
929 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
930 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
932 - Adds support for cmake.
933 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
934 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
936 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
938 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
939 that use them. The options are:
940 --sourcedir, --destdir
941 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
942 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
943 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
944 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
945 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
949 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
951 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
955 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
957 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
958 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
959 default. Closes: #537140
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
963 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
966 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
967 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
971 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
973 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
974 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
978 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
980 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
981 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
985 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
987 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
988 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
990 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
991 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
992 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
996 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
999 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
1000 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
1001 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
1005 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
1008 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
1009 warning or deprecation message.
1010 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
1011 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
1012 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
1013 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
1014 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
1015 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
1016 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
1017 Closes: #534639, #357434
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
1021 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
1027 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
1030 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
1031 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
1032 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
1033 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
1035 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
1036 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
1037 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
1041 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
1047 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
1054 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
1057 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
1061 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
1065 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
1066 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
1068 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
1069 file support. Closes: #494914
1070 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
1074 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
1077 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
1078 parameters. Closes: #527256
1079 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
1080 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
1081 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
1085 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
1088 (Patch from #459548)
1089 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
1090 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
1091 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1095 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1098 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1099 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1100 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1104 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1107 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1108 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1110 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1111 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1112 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1116 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1120 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1124 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1127 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1128 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1129 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1130 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1135 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1141 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1144 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1145 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1146 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1147 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1148 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1150 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1151 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1152 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1153 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1154 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1155 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1159 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1162 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1163 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1164 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1165 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1166 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1168 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1172 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1174 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1178 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1180 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1181 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1182 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1183 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1184 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1185 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1186 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1187 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1188 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1189 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1190 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1194 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1196 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1197 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1199 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1200 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1201 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1202 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1204 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1205 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1209 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1211 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1212 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1213 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1214 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1215 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1216 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1217 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1219 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1220 that uses them. Affected options are:
1221 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1222 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1223 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1224 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1225 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1226 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1227 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1228 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1229 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1230 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1231 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1232 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1236 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1243 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1249 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1252 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1254 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1255 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1256 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1257 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1258 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1259 than the old method.
1260 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1262 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1263 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1264 rules (see bug #509756).
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1268 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1274 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1275 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1276 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1277 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1281 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1284 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1285 empty files. Closes: #490937
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1289 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1295 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1302 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1305 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1306 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1307 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1308 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1313 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1315 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1316 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1317 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1318 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1322 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1325 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1326 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1327 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1328 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1329 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1333 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1340 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1343 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1344 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1345 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1346 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1347 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1348 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1349 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1350 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1351 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1355 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1358 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1359 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1360 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1361 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1363 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1364 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1365 breaking backwards compatibility.
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1369 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1372 message in perl 5.10.
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1376 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1382 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1385 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1389 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1392 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1396 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1399 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1400 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1401 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1402 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1403 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1404 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1405 logging by dh_listpackages.
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1409 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1412 run and there are no packages of that type.
1413 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1414 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1415 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1416 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1418 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1419 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1423 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1426 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1427 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1431 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1434 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1435 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1437 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1438 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1439 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1440 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1441 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1442 planned but not yet implemented.)
1443 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1444 if the Makefile has such a target.
1445 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1446 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1447 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1448 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1449 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1450 but not yet implemented.)
1451 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1452 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1453 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1454 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1455 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1457 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1459 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1460 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1462 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1463 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1464 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1469 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1472 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1473 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1477 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1479 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1480 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1481 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1485 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1491 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1497 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1500 just those installed by the program.
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1504 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1507 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1508 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1512 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1515 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1516 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1517 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1518 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1522 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1525 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1526 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1530 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1533 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1534 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1538 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1541 with policy. Closes: #461392
1542 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1543 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1544 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1545 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1546 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1550 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1553 Closes: #460340, #460351
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1557 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1560 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1561 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1562 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1563 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1567 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1570 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1571 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1572 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1573 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1574 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1575 package build directory won't work.
1576 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1577 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1578 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1579 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1580 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1581 mode. Closes: #459426
1582 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1587 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1590 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1594 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1598 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1599 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1600 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1601 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1602 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1603 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1607 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1610 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1611 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1612 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1613 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1617 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1620 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1621 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1622 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1623 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1624 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1628 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1631 debian/package.triggers files.
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1635 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1638 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1642 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1645 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1646 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1647 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1648 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1653 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1656 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1660 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1663 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1664 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1666 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1671 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1675 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1676 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1677 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1681 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1688 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1695 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1698 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1700 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1701 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1702 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1704 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1705 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1706 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1710 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1713 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1714 * Update urls to web page.
1715 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1716 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1717 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1718 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1722 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1725 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1726 - typo in alternatives call
1727 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1729 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1730 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1734 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1737 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1742 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1748 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1754 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1757 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1759 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1760 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1761 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1762 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1763 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1764 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1765 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1766 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1767 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1768 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1769 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1773 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1776 package install. Closes: #415717
1777 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1778 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1779 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1780 script and then remove the python files.
1781 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1782 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1783 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1784 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1785 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1786 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1787 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1788 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1789 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1790 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1791 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1792 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1793 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1797 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Correct typo in french translation
1803 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1804 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1806 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1808 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1809 Closes: #406921, #381940
1810 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1812 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1813 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1814 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1815 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1816 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1817 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1818 specified). Closes: #381851
1819 * Misc minor changes.
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1823 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1830 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1831 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1835 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1841 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1842 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1845 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1846 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1848 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1849 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1850 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1851 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1855 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1858 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1861 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1865 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1871 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1877 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1878 a difficult situation.
1879 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1880 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1881 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1882 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1883 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1884 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1885 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1886 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1887 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1888 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1892 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Non-maintainer upload.
1895 * Update of dh_python
1896 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1897 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1899 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1900 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1901 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1902 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1903 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1905 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1907 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Non-maintainer upload.
1910 * Update of dh_python
1911 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1912 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1913 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1914 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1915 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1916 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1917 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1918 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1919 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1920 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1922 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1923 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1924 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1925 the not too-distant future).
1926 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1927 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1928 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1929 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1930 thus made the build fail.
1932 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1934 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * Non-maintainer upload.
1937 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1939 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1941 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1944 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1945 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1946 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1947 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1948 package. Closes: #301424
1949 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1950 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1951 fonts). Closes: #372686
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1955 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1961 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1962 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1963 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1964 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1965 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1966 above, but already depends on that.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1970 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1973 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1974 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1975 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1976 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1977 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1981 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1987 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1993 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1994 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1998 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
2001 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
2005 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
2009 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
2010 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
2011 new version (0.24.1).
2012 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
2013 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
2016 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
2017 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
2018 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
2019 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
2020 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
2021 new directory on their own.
2022 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
2023 * Fix broken directory removal code.
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
2027 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
2030 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
2031 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
2032 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
2033 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
2037 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
2040 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
2041 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
2042 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
2043 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
2044 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
2048 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
2054 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Typo. Closes: #358904
2058 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
2059 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
2063 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2064 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
2068 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
2070 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
2071 || exit 0 instead of the intended
2073 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
2074 ignored. Closes: #337664
2076 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
2081 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
2087 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
2092 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
2093 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2094 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2095 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2096 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2097 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2098 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2102 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2105 version. Closes: #350607
2106 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2107 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2108 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2109 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2113 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2116 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2117 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2118 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2122 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2129 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2135 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2138 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2142 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2145 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2146 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2147 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2148 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2149 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2150 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2154 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2157 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2158 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2163 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2166 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2170 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2173 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2177 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2180 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2181 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2182 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2183 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2184 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2185 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2189 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2193 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2194 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2195 link. Closes: #346405
2196 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2198 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2199 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2200 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2201 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2202 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2203 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2204 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2208 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2215 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2221 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2224 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2228 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2231 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2236 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2240 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2241 installed. Closes: #342033
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2245 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2248 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2249 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2250 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2255 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2261 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2267 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2271 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2272 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2273 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2277 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2280 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2285 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2292 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2298 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2301 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2302 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2303 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2304 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2305 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2306 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2307 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2309 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2313 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2316 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2317 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2321 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2324 in standard man dirs.
2325 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2329 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2335 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2338 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2343 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2350 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2357 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2360 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2361 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2365 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2368 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2369 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2370 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2372 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2374 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2380 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2386 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2389 mode. Closes: #324161
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2393 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2396 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2397 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2398 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2399 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2404 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2407 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2408 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2409 is necesary for sanity.
2410 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2411 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2416 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2418 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2419 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2423 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2426 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2430 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2436 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2439 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2440 released, so use at your own risk.
2441 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2442 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2444 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2445 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2446 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2447 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2448 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2449 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2450 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2451 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2452 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2453 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2454 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2455 including twice per config file line now..
2456 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2457 and simplfy the rules file.
2458 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2459 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2460 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2462 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2463 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2467 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2470 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2474 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2477 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2481 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2484 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2488 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2491 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2492 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2493 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2494 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2495 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2496 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2500 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2503 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2504 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2505 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2510 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2513 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2514 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2519 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2522 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2523 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2524 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2529 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2532 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2533 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2534 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2538 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2544 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2551 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2554 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2555 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2556 unknown. Closes: #282924
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2560 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2567 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * Spanish man page updates.
2570 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2575 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2581 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2584 * dh_desktop: reindent
2585 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2586 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2590 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2596 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2598 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2602 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2604 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2608 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2611 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2612 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2616 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2622 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2628 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2635 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2638 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2642 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2645 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2646 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2647 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2648 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2649 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2650 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2652 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2653 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2654 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2655 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2656 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2657 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2658 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2659 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2660 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2661 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2662 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2663 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2664 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2665 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2666 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2667 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2671 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2678 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2681 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2685 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2688 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2692 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2695 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2699 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2702 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2706 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2712 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2718 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2724 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2727 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2728 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2729 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2733 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2736 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2740 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2743 but occasionally right and necessary.
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2747 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2750 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2751 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2752 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2753 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2754 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2758 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2761 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2763 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2764 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2765 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2766 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2767 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2768 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2769 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2770 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2771 postinst scripts for udebs.
2772 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2776 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2779 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2781 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2782 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2786 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2792 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2799 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2806 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2809 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2813 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2816 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2820 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2823 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2826 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2827 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2831 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2837 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2840 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2844 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2847 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2848 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2849 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2851 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2853 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2854 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2855 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2859 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2862 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2867 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2870 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2871 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2872 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2877 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2883 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2889 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2892 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2893 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2894 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2895 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2896 associated -dbg packages.
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2900 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2903 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2907 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2910 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2914 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2917 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2921 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2924 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2929 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2932 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2936 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2939 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2944 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2947 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2951 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2955 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2956 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2957 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2958 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2959 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2960 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2961 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2962 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2963 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2964 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2968 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2971 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2976 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2979 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2980 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2984 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2987 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2988 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2993 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2996 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
3000 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
3003 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
3007 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
3010 out section number. Closes: #204731
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
3014 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
3021 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
3027 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
3033 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * Typo, Closes: #203907
3036 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
3037 removal. Closes: #204286
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
3041 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
3044 renaming. Closes: #203548
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
3048 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
3051 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
3052 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
3056 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
3062 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
3068 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
3074 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
3077 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
3078 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
3079 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
3083 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
3086 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
3087 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
3091 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3097 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3104 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3107 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3112 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3115 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3119 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3122 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3124 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3125 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3129 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3132 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3137 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3140 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3144 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3150 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3152 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3156 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3159 it break hard links (see #188663).
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3163 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3166 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3170 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3176 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3180 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3181 debconf-mergetemplates
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3185 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3188 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3192 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3195 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3199 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3202 * Update debhelper(1).
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3206 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3209 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3210 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3211 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3212 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3213 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3217 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3220 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3221 the shell. Closes: #178524
3222 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3226 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3229 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3233 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3236 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3240 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3243 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3244 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3245 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3246 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3251 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3254 files from installation.
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3258 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3261 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3262 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3266 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3269 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3273 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3276 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3280 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3286 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3292 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3296 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3297 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3299 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3303 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3306 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3307 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3308 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3309 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3313 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3316 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3320 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3323 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3324 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3328 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3332 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3337 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3343 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3347 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3348 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3349 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3354 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3357 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3358 practice. Closes: #163303
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3362 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3368 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3375 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3378 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3380 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3381 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3382 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3383 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3384 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3388 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3391 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3396 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3402 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3409 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3412 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3417 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3423 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3429 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3435 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3442 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3445 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3446 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3447 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3448 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3453 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3459 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3466 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3469 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3470 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3474 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3477 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3478 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3479 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3480 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3481 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3485 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3488 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3490 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3495 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3498 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3502 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3505 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3506 right thing. Closes: #150644
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3510 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * Stupid, evil typo.
3513 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3517 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3524 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3527 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3528 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3533 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3539 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3542 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3546 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3549 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3550 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3555 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3558 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3562 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3568 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3571 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3572 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3576 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3582 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * Removing perl warning message.
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3588 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3591 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3592 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3593 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3594 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3595 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3596 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3597 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3598 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3602 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3608 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3615 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3617 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3618 debconf-mergetemplate.
3619 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3620 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3624 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3627 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3628 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3629 dh_install, which ...
3630 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3631 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3632 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3633 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3634 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3635 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3636 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3637 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3638 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3639 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3640 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3641 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3642 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3643 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3644 other minor changes.
3645 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3646 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3647 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3648 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3649 course there's -X ..)
3650 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3651 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3652 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3654 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3655 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3656 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3657 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3658 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3663 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3669 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3672 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3676 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3682 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3688 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3694 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3700 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3703 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3704 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3705 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3706 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3708 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3709 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3713 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3719 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3722 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3726 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3729 upset. Closes: #131322
3731 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3733 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3736 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3737 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3738 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3739 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3740 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3741 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3742 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3743 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3744 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3745 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3746 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3747 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3748 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3749 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3750 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3752 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3756 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3759 - Better indenting of generated code.
3760 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3764 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3768 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3769 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3770 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3771 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3772 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3773 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3774 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3778 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3781 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3785 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3788 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3789 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3790 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3791 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3792 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3793 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3794 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3795 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3796 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3797 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3798 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3799 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3800 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3801 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3802 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3807 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3813 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3816 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3817 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3821 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3824 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3825 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3829 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3835 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3837 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3838 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3839 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3840 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3841 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3842 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3847 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3853 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3855 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3856 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3860 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3863 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3868 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3874 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3877 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3881 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3887 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3889 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3891 Also some indentation fixes.
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3895 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3898 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3899 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3900 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3901 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3902 Closes: #106514, #85520
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3906 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3912 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3918 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3920 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3924 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3926 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3930 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3936 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3939 change it in debhelper v4..
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3943 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3949 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3952 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3956 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3959 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3963 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3969 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3972 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3973 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3974 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3975 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3976 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3977 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3978 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3979 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3980 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3981 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3982 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3983 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3987 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3989 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3990 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3994 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
4001 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
4004 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
4005 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
4006 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
4007 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
4008 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
4009 program those options go to. So, for example,
4010 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
4011 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
4012 something complex. Closes: #89311
4013 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
4015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
4017 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4019 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
4020 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
4021 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
4022 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
4026 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
4029 through loop. Closes: #98598
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
4033 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * Missing semi-colon.
4036 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
4037 this (dh_* should be called, really).
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
4041 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
4044 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
4045 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
4046 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
4050 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
4053 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
4054 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
4058 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4060 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
4061 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
4063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
4065 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4067 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
4068 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
4069 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
4073 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
4076 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
4077 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
4078 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
4080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
4082 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4084 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
4085 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
4086 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
4087 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
4091 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4094 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4098 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4100 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4104 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4110 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4116 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4122 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4124 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4125 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4129 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4131 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4132 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4133 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4134 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4135 followed. Closes: #85483
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4139 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4141 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4142 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4143 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4147 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4149 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4150 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4151 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4152 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4153 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4154 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4155 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4156 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4157 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4158 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4159 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4160 Closes: #88464, #77743
4161 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4162 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4163 us to deal with that gracefully.
4164 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4166 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4167 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4168 a while, Closes: #51225
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4172 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4178 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4181 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4185 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4189 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4194 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4197 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4198 don't make packlist files.
4199 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4200 debhelper coding standards.
4201 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4202 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4206 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4209 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4213 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4216 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4217 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4218 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4219 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4220 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4221 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4222 but is mildly deprecated.
4223 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4224 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4225 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4226 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4227 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4228 switching to statoverrides..
4229 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4230 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4231 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4232 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4233 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4234 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4236 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4237 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4238 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4239 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4240 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4241 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4242 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4243 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4244 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4246 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4247 variable names, pod man pages).
4248 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4249 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4250 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4251 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4252 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4253 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4254 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4258 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4264 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4271 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4274 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4278 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4280 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4281 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4282 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4286 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4288 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4289 they were previously ignored.
4291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4293 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4295 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4296 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4300 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4302 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4303 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4304 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4308 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4310 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4314 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4316 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4317 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4321 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4323 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4324 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4325 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4326 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4327 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4328 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4329 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4330 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4331 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4332 it is an obsolete program.
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4336 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4338 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4342 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4346 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4348 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4352 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4354 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4356 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4358 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4362 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4368 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4370 * typo: Closes, #78567
4372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4374 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4376 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4380 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4386 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4388 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4389 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4390 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4391 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4392 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4393 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4397 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4399 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4400 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4405 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4407 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4408 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4409 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4410 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4411 backwards-compatibility.
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4415 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4418 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4419 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4420 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4421 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4422 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4423 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4425 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4426 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4427 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4429 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4431 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4432 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4433 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4434 should now be raised to severity important..
4435 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4436 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4440 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4443 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4448 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4454 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4460 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4466 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4473 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4476 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4477 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4478 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4479 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4483 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4489 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4492 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4493 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4494 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4495 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4496 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4497 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4502 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4505 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4509 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4515 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4518 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4523 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4525 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4526 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4527 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4528 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4529 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4533 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4537 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4540 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4543 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4544 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4547 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4549 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4550 the TODO entry about it.
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4554 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4561 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4564 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4565 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4569 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4572 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4573 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4574 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4575 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4579 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4581 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4585 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4587 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4592 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4594 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4595 (this appears to be logal).
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4599 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4602 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4603 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4604 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4605 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4609 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4611 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4615 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4617 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4618 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4619 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4620 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4621 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4625 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4627 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4631 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4634 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4638 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4645 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4647 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4648 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4649 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4650 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4655 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4662 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4664 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4668 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4671 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4672 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4673 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4674 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4675 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4676 notice until v2 is complete.
4677 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
4678 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4679 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4680 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4681 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4682 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4684 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4685 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4686 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4687 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4691 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4693 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4697 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4704 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4707 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4711 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4713 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4718 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4720 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4721 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4722 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4723 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4724 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4729 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4732 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4733 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4734 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4739 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4742 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4743 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4747 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4749 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4750 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4754 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4756 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4757 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4761 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4763 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4768 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4771 depend on the build and install targets.
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4775 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4777 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4778 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4782 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4789 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4795 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4797 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4801 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4803 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4804 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4805 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4806 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4807 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4808 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4809 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4811 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4812 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4813 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4814 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4815 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4816 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4817 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4821 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4827 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4829 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4833 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4835 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4836 right place. Closes: #55065
4838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4840 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4842 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4847 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4850 * Copyright date updates.
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4854 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4857 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4862 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4868 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4875 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4881 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4883 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4887 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4889 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4893 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4895 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4896 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4897 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4898 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4899 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4900 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4901 bits until all files have been registered.
4903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4905 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4907 * dh_installmanpages:
4908 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4909 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4910 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4911 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4912 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4913 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4914 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4915 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4916 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4917 otherwise change the result at all.
4919 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4920 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4921 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4922 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4923 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4928 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4934 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4937 act on files that don't exist.
4938 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4939 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4940 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4942 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4943 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4944 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4945 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4949 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4951 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4955 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4961 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4963 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4964 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4968 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4971 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4973 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4974 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4975 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4979 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4981 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4982 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4983 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4984 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4985 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4986 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4987 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4988 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4990 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4992 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4996 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
5003 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
5009 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
5013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
5015 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5017 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
5018 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
5022 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
5026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
5028 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5030 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
5034 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
5037 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
5038 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
5039 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
5040 I made some changes, though:
5041 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
5042 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
5043 that is a clear violation of policy.
5044 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
5045 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
5046 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
5047 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
5048 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
5049 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
5050 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
5051 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
5052 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
5054 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
5056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
5058 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5060 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
5064 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5066 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
5067 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
5071 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
5074 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
5075 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
5078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
5080 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5082 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
5086 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
5091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
5093 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5095 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5096 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5097 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5098 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5099 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5100 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5101 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5102 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5106 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5108 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5112 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5116 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5117 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5121 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5123 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5127 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5130 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5134 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5137 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5138 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5142 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5144 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5149 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5153 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5157 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5160 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5161 for the dependancies to be generated.
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5165 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5167 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5168 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5172 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5174 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5175 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5176 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5177 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5182 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5184 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5185 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5186 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5190 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5196 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5198 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5202 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5204 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5205 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5209 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5215 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5217 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5218 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5219 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5220 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5221 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5222 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5223 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5224 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5225 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5226 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5227 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5228 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5229 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5233 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5236 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5237 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5239 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5240 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5241 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5242 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5243 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5244 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5246 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5247 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5251 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5253 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5254 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5258 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5260 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5265 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5267 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5268 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5273 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5276 for building debhelper.
5277 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5281 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5283 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5288 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5290 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5291 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5295 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5298 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5299 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5300 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5301 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5302 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5303 it's always available.
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5307 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5309 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5310 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5311 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5312 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5316 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5318 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5319 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5320 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5324 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5326 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5330 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5332 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5333 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5337 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5339 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5343 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5345 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5346 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5347 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5348 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5352 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5355 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5360 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5362 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5363 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5364 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5366 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5367 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5371 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5377 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5379 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5383 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5385 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5386 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5390 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5392 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5393 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5394 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5396 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5400 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5403 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5404 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5405 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5409 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5411 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5412 things if CDPATH is set.
5414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5416 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5418 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5422 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5425 seems to make sense for the transition.
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5429 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5432 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5437 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5440 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5441 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5445 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5447 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5448 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5452 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5454 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5455 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5456 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5457 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5458 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5462 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5468 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5470 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5471 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5472 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5473 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5474 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5475 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5476 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5477 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5478 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5479 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5480 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
5483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5485 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5487 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5488 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5489 * README: mention doc/v2
5490 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5491 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5495 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5497 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5498 be using this script RSN.
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5502 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5505 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5506 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5507 more than 1 init script.
5509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5511 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5513 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5514 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5518 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5520 * Changed perl version detection.
5521 * Changed call to find.
5523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5525 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5527 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5528 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5530 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5535 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5537 * Really include dh_installpam.
5539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5541 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5543 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5544 * Wrote man page for same.
5546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5548 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5550 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5551 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5552 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5557 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5559 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5564 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5566 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5567 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5568 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5569 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5570 x bit was being set!
5572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5574 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5576 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5577 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5578 well. (Closes: 38900)
5580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5582 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5584 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5585 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5586 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5590 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5592 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5596 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5598 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5603 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5605 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5609 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5611 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5612 help from Julian Gilbey.
5613 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5614 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5615 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5616 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5617 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5618 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5619 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5624 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5626 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5630 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5632 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5637 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5643 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5645 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5649 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5652 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5656 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5658 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5659 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5663 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5666 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5670 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5676 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5678 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5679 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5683 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5685 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5689 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5691 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5695 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5697 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5698 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5699 may be deleted. (#35845)
5701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5703 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5705 * Various man page enhancements.
5706 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5711 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5713 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5714 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5715 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5719 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5721 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5722 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5723 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5724 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5726 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5727 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5732 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5734 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5738 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5740 * Another very minor typo fix.
5742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5744 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5746 * Very minor typo fix.
5748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5750 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5752 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5753 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5754 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5758 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5764 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5767 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5768 variables properly (#34850).
5770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5772 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5774 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5778 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5780 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5781 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5782 (automatically generated by build process).
5784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5786 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5788 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5792 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5794 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5795 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5796 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5798 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5802 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5804 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5805 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5809 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5811 * README: minor typo fix.
5813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5815 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5817 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5818 leave it at that. :-)
5820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5822 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5824 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5828 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5830 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5834 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5836 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5837 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5838 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5839 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5843 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5845 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5846 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5850 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5852 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5853 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5857 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5859 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5860 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5861 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5862 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5863 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5867 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5869 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5870 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5871 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5872 Craig Small for spotting this.
5874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5876 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5878 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5879 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5880 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5884 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5886 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5890 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5892 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5893 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5897 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5899 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5900 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5901 working on the last version of debhelper.
5903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5905 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5907 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5908 being made. (#23255)
5910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5912 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5914 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5918 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5920 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5921 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5925 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5927 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5928 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5929 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5930 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5931 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5935 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5937 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5938 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5939 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5940 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5941 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5943 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5944 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5946 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5951 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5953 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5957 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5959 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5963 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5965 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5966 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5967 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5968 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5969 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5970 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5971 suidregister actually supports it.
5972 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5973 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5977 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5979 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5984 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5986 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5987 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5988 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5989 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5990 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5991 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5992 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5993 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5997 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5999 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
6000 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
6002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
6004 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
6006 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
6007 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
6008 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
6009 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
6010 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
6012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
6014 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
6016 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
6017 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
6019 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
6020 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
6021 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
6022 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
6023 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
6024 effect, either. (#30118)
6026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
6028 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
6030 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
6032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
6034 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
6036 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
6037 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
6038 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
6040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
6042 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
6044 * Spelling and typo fixes.
6046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
6048 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
6050 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
6051 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
6052 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
6053 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
6054 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
6056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
6058 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
6060 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
6061 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
6062 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
6064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
6066 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
6068 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
6070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
6072 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
6074 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
6075 packages, painlessly.
6077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
6079 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
6081 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
6083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
6085 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
6087 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
6089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
6091 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
6093 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6097 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6099 * The perl conversion is complete.
6101 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6103 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6104 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6105 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6110 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6113 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6114 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6115 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6119 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6121 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6122 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6124 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6126 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6127 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6131 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6133 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6134 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6135 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6139 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6141 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6145 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6147 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6148 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6149 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6150 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6151 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6152 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6156 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6158 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6159 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6160 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6161 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6162 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6166 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6168 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6169 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6173 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6175 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6176 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6177 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6178 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6179 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6180 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6181 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6182 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6183 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6187 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6189 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6193 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6195 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6196 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6197 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6198 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6203 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6205 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6206 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6210 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6212 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6213 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6217 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6219 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6220 sections of shared libraries.
6221 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6222 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6223 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6224 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6225 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6226 things you don't want them to.
6227 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6228 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6232 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6234 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6235 shared libraries. (#26414)
6237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6239 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6241 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6242 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6243 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6244 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6248 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6250 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6252 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6254 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6255 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6256 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6257 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6258 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6262 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6264 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6265 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6269 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6271 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6272 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6273 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6278 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6280 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6281 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6285 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6287 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6288 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6289 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6290 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6291 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6292 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6294 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6295 remove debian/files properly.
6296 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6297 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6298 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6299 * Removed bogus menu file.
6301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6303 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6305 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6306 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6310 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6312 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6313 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6314 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6315 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6316 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6317 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6318 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6322 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6324 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6325 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6326 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6327 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6328 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6332 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6334 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6339 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6341 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6342 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6343 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6345 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6346 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6347 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6348 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6349 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6350 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6354 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6356 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6357 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6358 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6359 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6360 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6361 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6362 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6363 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6364 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6365 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6366 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6367 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6368 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6369 passed any switches.
6370 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6374 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6376 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6377 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6378 at all for a long while.
6379 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6380 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6381 large chunks in the process.
6382 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6383 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6384 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6389 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6391 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6392 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6394 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6399 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6401 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6402 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6403 that don't always have the same files in them.
6404 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6405 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6406 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6410 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6412 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6414 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6415 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6416 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6417 updating 27 man pages.
6418 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6419 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6420 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6421 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6422 programs act on. (#25247)
6424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6426 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6430 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6431 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6432 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6433 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6434 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6435 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6440 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6442 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6447 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6449 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6454 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6456 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6457 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6461 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6463 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6467 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6469 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6470 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6471 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6472 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6473 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6474 package by accident.
6475 * Is version 1.0 next?
6477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6479 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6481 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6482 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6483 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6487 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6489 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6490 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6491 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6492 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6493 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6494 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6496 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6501 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6503 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6504 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6505 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6509 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6511 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6512 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6516 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6518 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6519 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6520 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6525 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6527 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6531 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6533 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6534 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6535 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6540 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6542 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6546 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6548 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6549 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6550 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6551 past week. Thanks, guys!
6553 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6554 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6555 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6556 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6557 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6558 would do in the same situation.
6559 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6560 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6562 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6564 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6565 permissions changed.
6566 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6567 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6568 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6569 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6570 files are treated identically.
6571 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6572 * Minor man page fixes.
6573 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6574 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6575 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6579 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6581 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6582 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6583 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6584 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6585 use -X multiple times, too.
6586 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6587 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6591 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6593 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6594 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6595 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6599 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6601 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6602 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6606 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6608 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6609 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6610 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6611 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6612 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6613 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6614 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6615 shape if you're starting a new package.
6617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6619 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6621 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6622 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6626 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6628 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6629 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6630 because of missing symlinks.
6632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6634 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6636 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6640 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6642 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6643 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6644 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6645 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6646 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6647 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6649 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6650 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6654 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6656 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6657 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6658 to be changed after the fact :-)
6659 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6663 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6665 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6666 no version string after the -V.
6668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6670 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6672 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6673 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6678 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6680 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6681 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6685 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6687 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6688 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6689 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6690 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6691 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6692 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6693 I always welcome corrections!
6695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6697 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6699 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6703 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6705 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6706 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6707 * Documented this new switch.
6709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6711 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6713 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6714 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6715 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6716 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6717 no packages use the old behavior.
6719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6721 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6723 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6724 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6725 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6729 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6731 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6732 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6736 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6738 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6742 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6744 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6745 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6749 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6751 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6752 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6753 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6754 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6758 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6760 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6764 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6766 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6767 into the source package by accident.
6769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6771 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6773 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6774 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6775 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6776 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6777 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6778 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6779 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6784 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6786 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6788 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6789 inspired to implement some of it.
6790 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6794 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6796 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6797 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6801 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6803 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6804 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6805 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6809 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6811 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6812 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6813 have done.) (#17598)
6815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6817 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6819 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6823 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6825 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6829 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6831 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6832 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6836 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6838 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6839 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6840 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6844 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6846 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6847 argument processor in perl.
6848 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6849 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6850 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6851 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6855 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6857 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6858 type directories. (#16933)
6859 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6860 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6861 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6862 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6863 are supported. (#16935)
6864 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6869 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6871 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6872 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6876 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6878 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6880 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6881 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6882 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6883 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6884 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6885 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6889 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6891 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6892 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6893 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6895 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6896 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6897 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6898 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6899 a given package, or -i or -a.
6900 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6901 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6902 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6903 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6904 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6905 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6906 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6907 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6908 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6910 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6911 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6912 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6916 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6918 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6919 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6920 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6925 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6927 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6928 does not have a section.
6930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6932 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6934 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6935 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6936 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6937 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6941 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6943 * Fixed typo #16215.
6945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6947 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6949 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6950 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6951 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6952 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6953 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6954 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6959 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6961 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6962 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6963 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6964 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6969 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6971 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6975 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6977 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6981 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6983 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6984 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6985 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6986 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6987 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6988 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6989 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6993 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6995 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6999 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
7001 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
7002 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
7004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
7006 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
7008 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
7009 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
7010 the dh_* programs (#15497).
7011 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
7013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
7015 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
7017 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
7018 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
7020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
7022 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
7024 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
7026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
7028 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
7030 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
7031 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
7033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
7035 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
7037 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
7038 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
7040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
7042 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
7044 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
7046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
7048 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
7050 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
7051 postinst, postrm, etc.
7053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
7055 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
7057 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
7059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
7061 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
7063 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
7064 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
7065 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
7066 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
7067 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
7068 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
7070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
7072 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
7074 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
7075 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
7076 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
7078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
7080 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
7082 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
7083 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
7085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
7087 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
7089 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
7090 installing package files into.
7091 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7096 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7098 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7100 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7104 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7106 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7110 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7112 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7113 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7117 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7119 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7120 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7121 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7122 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7123 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7127 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7129 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7130 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7131 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7132 multiple binary packages.
7133 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7134 should rebuild them with this version.
7135 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7139 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7141 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7142 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7146 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7148 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7149 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7153 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7155 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7156 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7157 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7158 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7159 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7160 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7161 debian/README.debian.
7162 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7163 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7164 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7165 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7166 in a few situations.)
7168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7170 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7172 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7176 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7178 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7182 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7184 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7185 * Fixed several man pages.
7187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7189 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7191 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7192 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7193 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7197 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7199 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7200 is ready for general use.
7201 * Added man pages for all commands.
7202 * Multiple binary package support.
7203 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7204 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7205 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7207 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7208 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7209 auto-installed as parameters.
7210 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7212 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7215 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7216 the package build directory it is to act on.
7217 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7218 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7219 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7223 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7225 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7226 ready to replace debstd.
7228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400