1 debhelper (9.20120523) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #673629 Thanks, Omar Campagne
4 * Set Multi-Arch: foreign. Closes: #674193
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 May 2012 14:55:48 -0400
8 debhelper (9.20120518) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Fix versioned dependency on dpkg for xz options. Closes: #672895
11 * dh_link: Doc improvement. Closes: #672988
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 May 2012 11:05:03 -0400
15 debhelper (9.20120513) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Improve -v logging. Closes: #672448
18 * dh_builddeb: Build udebs with xz compression, level 1, extreme strategy.
19 This has been chosen to not need any more memory or cpu when uncompressing,
20 while yeilding the best compressions for udebs. Thanks, Philipp Kern.
21 * Depend on a new enough dpkg for above features. Backporters will need
22 to revert these changes.
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 May 2012 13:09:42 -0400
26 debhelper (9.20120509) unstable; urgency=low
28 * dh_installman: Recognize sections from mdoc .Dt entries. Closes: #670210
30 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #671598
31 * dh_install: Reorder documentation for clarity. Closes: #672109
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 May 2012 12:59:15 -0400
35 debhelper (9.20120419) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Fix compat level checking for cmake. Closes: #669181
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:35 -0400
41 debhelper (9.20120418) unstable; urgency=low
43 * cmake: Only pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS in v9.
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:39 -0400
47 debhelper (9.20120417) unstable; urgency=low
49 * cmake: Pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS. Closes: #668813
50 Thanks, Simon Ruderich for the patch and for verifying no affected
51 package is broken by this change.
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:29 -0400
55 debhelper (9.20120410) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891
59 * Conflict with too old automake for AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. Closes: #666901
60 * dh_md5sums: Don't skip DEBIAN directories other than the control files
64 * dh_installinit: rework upstart handling to comply with new policy
65 proposal; packages will ship both an init script and an upstart job,
66 instead of just an upstart job and a symlink to a compat wrapper.
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:51:15 -0400
71 debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low
73 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
74 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
75 Added to interface documentation.
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400
80 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
82 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
86 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
88 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
89 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
90 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
91 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
93 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
94 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
95 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
96 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
97 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
102 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
105 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
106 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
107 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
108 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
109 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
110 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
114 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
116 * Typo. Closes: #653006
117 * Typo. Closes: #653339
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
121 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
123 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
124 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
125 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
126 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
127 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
128 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
132 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
134 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
135 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
136 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
137 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
138 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
139 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
140 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
141 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
145 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
147 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
151 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
153 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
154 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
155 may need to disable this.
156 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
157 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
158 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
159 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
163 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
166 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
167 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
171 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
173 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
174 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
175 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
177 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
178 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
179 to dh. Closes: #643069
180 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
181 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
185 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
187 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
188 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
189 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
190 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
191 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
193 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
194 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
195 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
197 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
198 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
199 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
200 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
201 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
202 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
203 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
204 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
205 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
206 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
207 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
208 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
209 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
210 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
211 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
215 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
217 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
222 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
224 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
225 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
227 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
233 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
235 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
236 Use override targets instead.
237 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
238 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
239 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
240 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
241 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
242 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
243 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
244 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
245 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
246 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
251 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
254 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
258 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
260 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
264 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
266 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
267 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
268 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
269 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
270 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
271 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
272 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
276 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
279 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
280 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
281 the targets. Closes: #629139
282 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
283 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
284 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
285 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
286 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
287 are already set to other values will not be changed.
289 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
290 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
291 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
292 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
293 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
298 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
304 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
306 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
307 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
308 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
312 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
314 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
315 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
316 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
317 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
318 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
319 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
320 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
321 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
326 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
329 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
330 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
331 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
333 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
334 changes may be added to that mode.
335 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
336 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
337 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
338 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
339 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
340 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
341 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
342 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
343 * Removed old example rules files.
344 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
348 * update french translation.
349 * Fix french misspelling.
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
353 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
356 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
360 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
362 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
363 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
364 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
365 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
366 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
367 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
368 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
369 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
373 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
376 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
377 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
378 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
379 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
380 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
381 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
383 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
384 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
385 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
386 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
387 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
388 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
389 (Thanks, David Prévot)
390 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
391 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
392 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
393 target fails. Closes: #601037
394 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
396 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
397 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
398 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
399 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
400 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
402 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
403 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
405 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
406 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
407 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
409 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
411 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
414 * update french translation.
415 * Fix french misspelling.
416 * French translation update after massive man page typography
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
420 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
423 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
426 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
430 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
432 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
436 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
438 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
439 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
440 introduced by the fix to #527990.
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
444 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
446 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
447 changes are planned for that mode.
448 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
449 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
450 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
451 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
452 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
453 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
454 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
455 (genesis) still uses them.
456 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
457 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
458 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
459 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
460 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
461 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
462 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
463 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
464 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
465 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
466 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
467 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
468 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
469 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
470 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
471 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
472 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
473 commands. (See #570039)
474 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
476 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
481 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
483 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
485 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
486 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
487 in control file or debhelper config files.
488 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
492 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
495 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
496 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
500 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
503 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
507 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
510 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
511 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
515 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
517 * Updated French translation.
518 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
519 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
520 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
521 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
523 * Typo. Closes: #571968
524 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
525 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
526 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
527 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
528 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
529 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
530 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
531 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
532 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
534 * dh: Improve documentation.
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
538 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
540 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
541 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
542 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
546 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
549 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
553 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
555 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
556 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
560 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
562 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
563 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
564 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
565 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
566 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
567 options that they do not support.
568 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
569 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
570 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
571 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
572 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
573 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
578 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
580 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
582 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
583 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
584 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
585 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
586 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
587 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
588 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
589 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
590 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
594 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
596 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
597 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
598 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
599 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
600 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
604 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Typo. Closes: #558654
607 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
608 installed. Closes: #558782
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
612 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
614 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
615 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
616 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
617 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
618 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
619 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
623 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
625 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
626 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
627 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
628 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
632 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
634 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
635 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
636 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
640 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
642 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
646 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
648 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
649 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
650 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
651 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
652 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
653 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
654 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
655 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
656 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
657 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
658 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
659 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
660 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
661 time soon.) Closes: #554509
662 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
664 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
665 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
666 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
667 document id. Closes: #555677
668 * Typo. Closes: #555659
669 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
670 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
671 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
672 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
674 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
675 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
676 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
681 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
684 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
685 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
686 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
687 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
688 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
689 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
690 translation (#494300 part 2)
693 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
695 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
696 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
697 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
698 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
699 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
703 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
705 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
706 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
707 (It was only run once due to logging.)
708 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
709 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
710 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
711 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
712 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
713 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
714 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
715 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
716 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
717 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
721 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
724 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
725 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
728 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
729 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
733 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
736 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
737 flag with arch all/any packages.
738 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
739 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
740 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
741 situation. Closes: #540794
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
745 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
747 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
749 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
750 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
751 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
752 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
753 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
756 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
757 the default. Closes: #538201
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
762 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
766 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
767 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
768 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
769 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
770 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
772 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
773 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
774 * Above Closes: #491117
775 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
780 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
786 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
787 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
788 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
792 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
795 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
796 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
797 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
798 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
799 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
804 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
806 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
807 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
808 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
812 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
814 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
818 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
820 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
821 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
823 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
824 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
825 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
829 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
831 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
832 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
836 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
838 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
842 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
844 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
845 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
846 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
851 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
853 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
857 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
860 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
861 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
862 created by using `python' first during build and install.
864 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
869 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
871 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
875 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
877 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
878 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
882 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
884 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
888 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
890 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
894 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
896 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
897 contributed by Modestas Vainius
898 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
899 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
900 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
901 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
902 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
903 that support it. Closes: #480577
904 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
905 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
906 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
908 - Adds support for cmake.
909 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
910 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
912 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
914 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
915 that use them. The options are:
916 --sourcedir, --destdir
917 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
918 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
919 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
920 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
921 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
925 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
927 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
931 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
933 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
934 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
935 default. Closes: #537140
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
939 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
942 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
943 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
947 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
949 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
950 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
954 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
957 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
961 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
964 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
966 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
967 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
968 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
972 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
974 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
975 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
976 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
977 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
981 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
984 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
985 warning or deprecation message.
986 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
987 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
988 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
989 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
990 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
991 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
992 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
993 Closes: #534639, #357434
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
997 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
1003 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
1006 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
1007 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
1008 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
1009 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
1011 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
1012 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
1013 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
1017 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
1023 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
1030 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
1033 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
1037 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
1041 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
1042 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
1044 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
1045 file support. Closes: #494914
1046 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
1050 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
1053 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
1054 parameters. Closes: #527256
1055 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
1056 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
1057 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
1061 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
1064 (Patch from #459548)
1065 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
1066 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
1067 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1071 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1074 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1075 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1076 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1080 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1083 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1084 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1086 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1087 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1088 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1092 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1096 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1100 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1103 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1104 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1105 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1106 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1111 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1117 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1120 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1121 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1122 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1123 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1124 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1126 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1127 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1128 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1129 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1130 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1131 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1135 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1138 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1139 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1140 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1141 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1142 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1144 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1148 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1150 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1154 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1156 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1157 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1158 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1159 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1160 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1161 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1162 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1163 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1164 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1165 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1166 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1170 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1172 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1173 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1175 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1176 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1177 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1178 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1180 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1181 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1185 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1187 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1188 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1189 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1190 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1191 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1192 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1193 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1195 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1196 that uses them. Affected options are:
1197 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1198 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1199 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1200 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1201 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1202 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1203 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1204 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1205 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1206 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1207 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1208 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1212 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1219 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1225 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1228 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1230 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1231 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1232 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1233 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1234 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1235 than the old method.
1236 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1238 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1239 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1240 rules (see bug #509756).
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1244 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1250 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1251 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1252 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1253 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1257 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1260 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1261 empty files. Closes: #490937
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1265 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1271 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1278 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1281 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1282 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1283 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1284 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1289 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1291 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1292 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1293 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1294 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1298 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1301 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1302 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1303 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1304 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1305 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1309 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1316 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1319 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1320 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1321 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1322 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1323 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1324 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1325 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1326 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1327 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1331 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1334 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1335 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1336 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1337 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1339 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1340 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1341 breaking backwards compatibility.
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1345 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1348 message in perl 5.10.
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1352 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1358 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1361 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1365 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1368 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1372 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1375 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1376 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1377 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1378 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1379 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1380 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1381 logging by dh_listpackages.
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1385 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1388 run and there are no packages of that type.
1389 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1390 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1391 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1392 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1394 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1395 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1399 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1402 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1403 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1407 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1410 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1411 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1413 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1414 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1415 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1416 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1417 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1418 planned but not yet implemented.)
1419 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1420 if the Makefile has such a target.
1421 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1422 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1423 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1424 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1425 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1426 but not yet implemented.)
1427 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1428 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1429 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1430 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1431 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1433 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1435 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1436 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1438 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1439 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1440 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1445 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1448 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1449 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1453 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1455 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1456 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1457 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1461 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1467 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1473 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1476 just those installed by the program.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1480 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1483 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1484 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1488 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1491 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1492 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1493 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1494 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1498 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1501 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1502 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1506 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1509 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1510 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1514 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1517 with policy. Closes: #461392
1518 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1519 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1520 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1521 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1522 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1526 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1529 Closes: #460340, #460351
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1533 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1536 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1537 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1538 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1539 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1543 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1546 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1547 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1548 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1549 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1550 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1551 package build directory won't work.
1552 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1553 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1554 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1555 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1556 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1557 mode. Closes: #459426
1558 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1563 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1566 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1570 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1574 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1575 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1576 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1577 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1578 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1579 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1583 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1586 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1587 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1588 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1589 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1593 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1596 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1597 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1598 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1599 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1600 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1604 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1607 debian/package.triggers files.
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1611 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1614 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1618 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1621 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1622 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1623 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1624 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1629 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1632 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1636 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1639 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1640 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1642 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1647 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1651 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1652 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1653 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1657 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1664 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1671 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1674 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1676 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1677 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1678 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1680 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1681 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1682 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1686 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1689 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1690 * Update urls to web page.
1691 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1692 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1693 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1694 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1698 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1701 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1702 - typo in alternatives call
1703 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1705 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1706 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1710 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1713 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1718 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1724 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1730 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1733 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1735 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1736 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1737 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1738 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1739 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1740 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1741 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1742 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1743 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1744 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1745 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1749 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1752 package install. Closes: #415717
1753 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1754 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1755 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1756 script and then remove the python files.
1757 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1758 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1759 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1760 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1761 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1762 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1763 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1764 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1765 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1766 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1767 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1768 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1769 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1773 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Correct typo in french translation
1779 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1780 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1782 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1784 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1785 Closes: #406921, #381940
1786 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1788 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1789 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1790 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1791 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1792 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1793 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1794 specified). Closes: #381851
1795 * Misc minor changes.
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1799 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1806 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1807 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1811 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1817 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1818 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1821 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1822 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1824 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1825 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1826 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1827 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1831 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1834 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1837 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1841 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1847 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1853 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1854 a difficult situation.
1855 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1856 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1857 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1858 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1859 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1860 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1861 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1862 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1863 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1864 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1868 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * Non-maintainer upload.
1871 * Update of dh_python
1872 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1873 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1875 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1876 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1877 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1878 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1879 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1881 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1883 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Non-maintainer upload.
1886 * Update of dh_python
1887 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1888 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1889 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1890 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1891 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1892 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1893 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1894 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1895 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1896 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1898 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1899 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1900 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1901 the not too-distant future).
1902 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1903 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1904 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1905 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1906 thus made the build fail.
1908 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1910 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Non-maintainer upload.
1913 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1915 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1917 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1920 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1921 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1922 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1923 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1924 package. Closes: #301424
1925 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1926 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1927 fonts). Closes: #372686
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1931 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1937 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1938 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1939 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1940 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1941 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1942 above, but already depends on that.
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1946 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1949 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1950 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1951 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1952 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1953 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1957 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1963 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1969 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1970 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1974 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1977 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1981 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1985 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1986 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1987 new version (0.24.1).
1988 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1989 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1992 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1993 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1994 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1995 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1996 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1997 new directory on their own.
1998 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1999 * Fix broken directory removal code.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
2003 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
2006 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
2007 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
2008 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
2009 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
2013 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
2016 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
2017 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
2018 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
2019 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
2020 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
2024 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
2030 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * Typo. Closes: #358904
2034 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
2035 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
2039 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2040 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
2044 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
2046 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
2047 || exit 0 instead of the intended
2049 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
2050 ignored. Closes: #337664
2052 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
2057 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
2063 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
2068 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
2069 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2070 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2071 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2072 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2073 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2074 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2078 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2081 version. Closes: #350607
2082 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2083 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2084 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2085 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2089 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2092 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2093 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2094 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2098 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2105 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2111 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2114 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2118 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2121 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2122 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2123 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2124 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2125 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2126 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2130 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2133 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2134 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2139 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2142 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2146 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2149 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2153 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2156 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2157 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2158 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2159 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2160 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2161 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2165 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2169 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2170 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2171 link. Closes: #346405
2172 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2174 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2175 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2176 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2177 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2178 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2179 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2180 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2184 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2191 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2197 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2200 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2204 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2207 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2212 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2216 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2217 installed. Closes: #342033
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2221 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2224 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2225 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2226 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2231 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2237 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2243 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2247 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2248 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2249 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2253 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2256 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2261 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2268 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2274 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2277 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2278 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2279 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2280 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2281 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2282 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2283 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2285 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2289 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2292 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2293 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2297 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2300 in standard man dirs.
2301 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2305 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2311 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2314 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2319 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2326 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2333 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2336 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2337 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2341 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2344 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2345 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2346 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2348 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2350 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2356 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2362 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2365 mode. Closes: #324161
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2369 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2372 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2373 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2374 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2375 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2380 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2383 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2384 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2385 is necesary for sanity.
2386 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2387 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2392 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2394 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2395 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2399 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2402 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2406 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2412 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2415 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2416 released, so use at your own risk.
2417 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2418 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2420 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2421 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2422 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2423 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2424 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2425 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2426 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2427 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2428 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2429 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2430 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2431 including twice per config file line now..
2432 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2433 and simplfy the rules file.
2434 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2435 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2436 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2438 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2439 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2443 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2446 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2450 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2453 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2457 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2460 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2464 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2467 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2468 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2469 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2470 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2471 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2472 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2476 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2479 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2480 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2481 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2486 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2489 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2490 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2495 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2498 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2499 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2500 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2505 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2508 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2509 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2510 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2514 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2520 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2527 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2530 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2531 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2532 unknown. Closes: #282924
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2536 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2543 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * Spanish man page updates.
2546 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2551 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2557 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2560 * dh_desktop: reindent
2561 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2562 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2566 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2572 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2574 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2578 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2580 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2584 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2587 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2588 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2592 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2598 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2604 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2611 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2614 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2618 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2621 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2622 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2623 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2624 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2625 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2626 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2628 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2629 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2630 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2631 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2632 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2633 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2634 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2635 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2636 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2637 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2638 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2639 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2640 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2641 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2642 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2643 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2647 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2654 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2657 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2661 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2664 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2668 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2671 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2675 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2678 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2682 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2688 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2694 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2700 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2703 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2704 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2705 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2709 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2712 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2716 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2719 but occasionally right and necessary.
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2723 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2726 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2727 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2728 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2729 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2730 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2734 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2737 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2739 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2740 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2741 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2742 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2743 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2744 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2745 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2746 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2747 postinst scripts for udebs.
2748 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2752 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2755 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2757 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2758 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2762 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2768 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2775 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2782 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2785 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2789 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2792 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2796 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2799 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2802 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2803 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2807 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2813 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2816 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2820 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2823 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2824 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2825 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2827 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2829 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2830 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2831 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2835 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2838 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2843 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2846 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2847 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2848 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2853 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2859 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2865 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2868 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2869 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2870 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2871 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2872 associated -dbg packages.
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2876 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2879 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2883 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2886 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2890 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2893 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2897 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2900 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2905 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2908 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2912 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2915 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2920 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2923 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2927 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2931 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2932 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2933 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2934 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2935 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2936 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2937 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2938 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2939 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2940 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2944 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2947 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2952 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2955 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2956 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2960 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2963 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2964 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2969 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2972 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2976 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2979 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2983 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2986 out section number. Closes: #204731
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2990 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2997 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
3003 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
3009 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * Typo, Closes: #203907
3012 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
3013 removal. Closes: #204286
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
3017 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
3020 renaming. Closes: #203548
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
3024 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
3027 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
3028 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
3032 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
3038 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
3044 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
3050 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
3053 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
3054 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
3055 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
3059 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
3062 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
3063 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
3067 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3073 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3080 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3083 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3088 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3091 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3095 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3098 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3100 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3101 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3105 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3108 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3113 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3116 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3120 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3126 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3128 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3132 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3135 it break hard links (see #188663).
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3139 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3142 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3146 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3152 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3156 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3157 debconf-mergetemplates
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3161 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3164 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3168 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3171 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3175 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3178 * Update debhelper(1).
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3182 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3185 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3186 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3187 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3188 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3189 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3193 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3196 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3197 the shell. Closes: #178524
3198 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3202 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3205 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3209 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3212 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3216 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3219 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3220 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3221 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3222 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3227 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3230 files from installation.
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3234 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3237 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3238 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3242 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3245 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3249 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3252 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3256 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3262 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3268 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3272 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3273 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3275 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3279 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3282 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3283 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3284 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3285 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3289 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3292 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3296 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3299 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3300 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3304 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3308 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3313 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3319 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3323 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3324 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3325 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3330 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3333 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3334 practice. Closes: #163303
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3338 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3344 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3351 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3354 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3356 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3357 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3358 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3359 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3360 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3364 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3367 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3372 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3378 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3385 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3388 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3393 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3399 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3405 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3411 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3418 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3421 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3422 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3423 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3424 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3429 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3435 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3442 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3445 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3446 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3450 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3453 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3454 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3455 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3456 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3457 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3461 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3464 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3466 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3471 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3474 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3478 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3481 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3482 right thing. Closes: #150644
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3486 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * Stupid, evil typo.
3489 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3493 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3500 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3503 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3504 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3509 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3515 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3518 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3522 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3525 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3526 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3531 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3534 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3538 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3544 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3547 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3548 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3552 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3558 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * Removing perl warning message.
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3564 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3567 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3568 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3569 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3570 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3571 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3572 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3573 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3574 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3578 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3584 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3591 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3594 debconf-mergetemplate.
3595 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3596 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3600 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3603 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3604 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3605 dh_install, which ...
3606 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3607 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3608 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3609 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3610 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3611 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3612 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3613 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3614 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3615 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3616 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3617 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3618 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3619 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3620 other minor changes.
3621 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3622 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3623 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3624 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3625 course there's -X ..)
3626 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3627 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3628 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3630 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3631 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3632 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3633 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3634 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3639 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3645 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3648 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3652 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3658 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3664 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3670 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3676 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3679 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3680 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3681 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3682 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3684 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3685 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3689 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3695 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3698 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3702 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3705 upset. Closes: #131322
3707 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3709 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3712 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3713 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3714 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3715 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3716 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3717 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3718 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3719 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3720 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3721 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3722 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3723 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3724 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3725 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3726 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3728 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3732 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3735 - Better indenting of generated code.
3736 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3740 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3744 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3745 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3746 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3747 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3748 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3749 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3750 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3754 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3757 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3761 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3764 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3765 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3766 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3767 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3768 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3769 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3770 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3771 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3772 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3773 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3774 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3775 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3776 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3777 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3778 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3783 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3789 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3792 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3793 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3797 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3800 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3801 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3805 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3811 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3814 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3815 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3816 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3817 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3818 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3823 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3829 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3832 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3836 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3839 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3844 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3850 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3853 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3857 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3863 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3867 Also some indentation fixes.
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3871 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3874 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3875 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3876 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3877 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3878 Closes: #106514, #85520
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3882 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3888 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3894 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3900 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3906 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3912 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3915 change it in debhelper v4..
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3919 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3925 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3927 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3928 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3932 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3935 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3939 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3941 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3945 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3947 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3948 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3949 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3950 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3951 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3952 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3953 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3954 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3955 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3956 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3957 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3958 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3959 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3963 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3966 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3970 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3972 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3977 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3980 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3981 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3982 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3983 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3984 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3985 program those options go to. So, for example,
3986 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3987 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3988 something complex. Closes: #89311
3989 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3993 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3996 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3997 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3998 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
4000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
4002 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4004 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
4005 through loop. Closes: #98598
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
4009 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * Missing semi-colon.
4012 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
4013 this (dh_* should be called, really).
4015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
4017 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4019 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
4020 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
4021 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
4022 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
4026 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
4029 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
4030 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
4034 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
4037 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
4041 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
4044 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
4045 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
4047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
4049 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4051 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
4052 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
4053 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
4054 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
4058 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4060 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
4061 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
4062 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
4063 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
4067 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4070 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4074 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4080 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4086 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4092 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4094 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4098 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4100 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4101 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4105 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4108 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4109 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4110 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4111 followed. Closes: #85483
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4115 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4117 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4118 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4119 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4123 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4126 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4127 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4128 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4129 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4130 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4131 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4132 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4133 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4134 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4135 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4136 Closes: #88464, #77743
4137 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4138 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4139 us to deal with that gracefully.
4140 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4142 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4143 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4144 a while, Closes: #51225
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4148 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4154 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4156 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4157 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4161 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4163 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4165 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4170 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4173 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4174 don't make packlist files.
4175 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4176 debhelper coding standards.
4177 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4178 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4182 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4184 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4185 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4189 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4191 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4192 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4193 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4194 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4195 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4196 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4197 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4198 but is mildly deprecated.
4199 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4200 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4201 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4202 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4203 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4204 switching to statoverrides..
4205 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4206 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4207 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4208 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4209 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4210 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4212 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4213 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4214 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4215 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4216 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4217 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4218 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4219 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4220 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4222 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4223 variable names, pod man pages).
4224 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4225 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4226 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4227 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4228 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4229 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4230 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4234 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4240 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4247 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4250 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4254 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4256 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4257 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4258 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4262 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4264 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4265 they were previously ignored.
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4269 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4271 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4272 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4276 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4278 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4279 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4280 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4284 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4286 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4290 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4292 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4293 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4297 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4299 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4300 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4301 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4302 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4303 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4304 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4305 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4306 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4307 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4308 it is an obsolete program.
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4312 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4314 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4318 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4320 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4322 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4324 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4326 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4328 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4330 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4332 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4334 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4338 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4344 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * typo: Closes, #78567
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4350 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4356 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4362 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4365 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4366 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4367 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4368 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4369 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4373 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4376 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4381 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4383 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4384 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4385 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4386 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4387 backwards-compatibility.
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4391 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4394 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4395 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4396 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4397 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4398 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4399 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4401 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4402 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4403 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4405 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4407 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4408 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4409 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4410 should now be raised to severity important..
4411 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4412 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4416 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4419 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4424 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4430 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4436 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4438 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4442 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4449 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4451 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4452 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4453 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4454 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4455 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4459 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4465 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4468 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4469 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4470 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4471 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4472 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4473 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4478 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4481 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4485 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4491 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4494 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4499 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4501 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4502 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4503 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4504 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4505 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4509 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4513 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4516 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4519 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4520 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4523 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4525 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4526 the TODO entry about it.
4528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4530 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4532 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4537 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4540 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4541 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4545 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4548 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4549 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4550 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4551 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4555 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4561 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4568 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4571 (this appears to be logal).
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4575 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4578 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4579 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4580 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4581 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4585 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4587 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4591 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4593 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4594 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4595 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4596 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4597 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4601 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4607 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4610 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4614 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4621 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4624 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4625 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4626 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4631 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4638 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4644 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4647 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4648 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4649 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4650 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4651 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4652 notice until v2 is complete.
4653 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
4654 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4655 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4656 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4657 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4658 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4660 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4661 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4662 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4663 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4667 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4673 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4680 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4683 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4687 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4689 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4694 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4697 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4698 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4699 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4700 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4705 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4708 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4709 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4710 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4715 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4718 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4719 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4723 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4726 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4730 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4732 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4733 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4737 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4744 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4747 depend on the build and install targets.
4749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4751 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4753 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4754 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4758 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4760 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4765 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4767 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4771 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4773 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4777 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4780 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4781 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4782 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4783 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4784 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4785 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4787 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4788 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4789 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4790 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4791 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4792 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4793 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4797 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4803 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4809 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4811 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4812 right place. Closes: #55065
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4816 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4818 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4823 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4826 * Copyright date updates.
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4830 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4833 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4838 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4844 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4851 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4853 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4857 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4859 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4863 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4865 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4869 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4871 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4872 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4873 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4874 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4875 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4876 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4877 bits until all files have been registered.
4879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4881 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4883 * dh_installmanpages:
4884 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4885 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4886 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4887 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4888 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4889 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4890 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4891 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4892 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4893 otherwise change the result at all.
4895 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4896 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4897 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4898 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4899 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4904 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4910 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4913 act on files that don't exist.
4914 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4915 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4916 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4918 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4919 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4920 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4921 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4925 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4927 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4931 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4933 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4937 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4939 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4940 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4944 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4947 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4949 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4950 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4951 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4955 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4958 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4959 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4960 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4961 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4962 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4963 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4964 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4966 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4968 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4972 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4974 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4979 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4981 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4985 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4987 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4991 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4993 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4994 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4998 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5000 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
5004 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5006 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
5010 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
5013 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
5014 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
5015 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
5016 I made some changes, though:
5017 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
5018 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
5019 that is a clear violation of policy.
5020 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
5021 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
5022 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
5023 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
5024 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
5025 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
5026 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
5027 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
5028 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
5030 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
5034 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
5038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
5040 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5042 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
5043 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
5045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
5047 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5049 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
5050 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
5051 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
5054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
5056 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5058 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
5060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
5062 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5064 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
5067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
5069 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5071 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5072 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5073 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5074 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5075 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5076 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5077 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5078 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5082 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5084 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5088 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5092 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5093 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5097 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5099 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5103 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5105 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5106 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5110 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5112 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5113 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5114 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5118 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5120 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5125 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5127 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5129 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5133 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5135 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5136 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5137 for the dependancies to be generated.
5139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5141 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5143 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5144 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5148 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5150 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5151 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5152 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5153 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5158 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5160 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5161 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5162 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5166 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5168 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5172 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5174 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5178 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5180 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5181 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5185 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5187 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5191 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5193 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5194 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5195 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5196 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5197 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5198 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5199 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5200 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5201 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5202 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5203 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5204 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5205 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5209 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5212 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5213 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5215 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5216 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5217 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5218 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5219 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5220 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5222 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5223 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5227 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5229 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5230 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5234 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5236 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5241 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5243 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5244 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5249 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5252 for building debhelper.
5253 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5257 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5264 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5266 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5267 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5271 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5273 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5274 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5275 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5276 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5277 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5278 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5279 it's always available.
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5283 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5286 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5287 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5288 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5292 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5294 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5295 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5296 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5300 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5302 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5306 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5308 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5309 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5313 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5315 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5319 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5322 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5323 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5324 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5328 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5331 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5336 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5339 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5340 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5342 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5343 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5347 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5349 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5353 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5355 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5359 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5362 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5366 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5368 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5369 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5370 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5372 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5376 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5378 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5379 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5380 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5381 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5385 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5387 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5388 things if CDPATH is set.
5390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5392 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5394 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5398 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5400 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5401 seems to make sense for the transition.
5403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5405 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5407 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5408 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5413 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5415 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5416 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5417 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5421 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5424 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5428 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5430 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5431 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5432 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5433 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5434 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5438 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5444 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5446 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5447 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5448 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5449 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5450 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5451 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5452 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5453 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5454 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5455 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5456 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
5459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5461 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5463 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5464 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5465 * README: mention doc/v2
5466 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5467 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5471 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5473 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5474 be using this script RSN.
5476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5478 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5480 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5481 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5482 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5483 more than 1 init script.
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5487 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5490 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5494 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * Changed perl version detection.
5497 * Changed call to find.
5499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5501 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5503 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5504 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5506 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5511 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5513 * Really include dh_installpam.
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5517 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5520 * Wrote man page for same.
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5524 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5527 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5528 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5533 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5535 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5540 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5542 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5543 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5544 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5545 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5546 x bit was being set!
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5550 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5553 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5554 well. (Closes: 38900)
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5558 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5561 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5562 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5566 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5572 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5574 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5579 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5585 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5587 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5588 help from Julian Gilbey.
5589 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5590 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5591 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5592 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5593 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5594 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5595 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5600 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5606 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5613 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5619 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5621 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5625 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5628 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5632 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5634 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5635 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5639 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5641 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5642 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5646 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5648 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5652 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5654 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5655 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5659 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5661 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5665 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5671 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5674 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5675 may be deleted. (#35845)
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5679 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * Various man page enhancements.
5682 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5687 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5689 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5690 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5691 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5695 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5697 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5698 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5699 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5700 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5702 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5703 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5708 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5710 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5714 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5716 * Another very minor typo fix.
5718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5720 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5722 * Very minor typo fix.
5724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5726 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5728 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5729 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5730 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5734 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5736 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5740 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5743 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5744 variables properly (#34850).
5746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5748 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5750 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5754 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5756 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5757 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5758 (automatically generated by build process).
5760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5762 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5764 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5768 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5770 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5771 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5772 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5774 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5778 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5780 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5781 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5785 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5787 * README: minor typo fix.
5789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5791 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5793 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5794 leave it at that. :-)
5796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5798 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5800 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5804 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5806 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5810 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5812 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5813 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5814 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5815 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5819 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5821 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5822 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5826 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5828 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5829 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5833 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5835 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5836 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5837 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5838 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5839 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5843 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5845 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5846 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5847 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5848 Craig Small for spotting this.
5850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5852 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5854 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5855 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5856 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5860 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5862 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5866 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5868 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5869 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5873 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5875 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5876 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5877 working on the last version of debhelper.
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5881 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5883 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5884 being made. (#23255)
5886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5888 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5890 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5894 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5896 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5897 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5901 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5903 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5904 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5905 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5906 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5907 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5911 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5914 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5915 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5916 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5917 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5919 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5920 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5922 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5927 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5929 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5933 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5935 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5939 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5941 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5942 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5943 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5944 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5945 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5946 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5947 suidregister actually supports it.
5948 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5949 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5953 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5955 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5960 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5962 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5963 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5964 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5965 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5966 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5967 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5968 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5969 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5973 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5975 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5976 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5980 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5982 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5983 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5984 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5985 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5986 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5990 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5992 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5993 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5995 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5996 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5997 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5998 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5999 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
6000 effect, either. (#30118)
6002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
6004 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
6006 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
6008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
6010 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
6012 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
6013 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
6014 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
6016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
6018 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
6020 * Spelling and typo fixes.
6022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
6024 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
6026 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
6027 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
6028 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
6029 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
6030 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
6032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
6034 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
6036 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
6037 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
6038 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
6040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
6042 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
6044 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
6046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
6048 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
6050 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
6051 packages, painlessly.
6053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
6055 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
6057 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
6059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
6061 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
6063 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
6065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
6067 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
6069 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6073 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6075 * The perl conversion is complete.
6077 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6079 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6080 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6081 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6086 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6088 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6089 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6090 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6091 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6095 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6097 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6098 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6100 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6102 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6103 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6107 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6109 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6110 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6111 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6115 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6117 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6121 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6123 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6124 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6125 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6126 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6127 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6128 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6132 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6134 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6135 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6136 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6137 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6138 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6142 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6144 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6145 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6149 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6151 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6152 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6153 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6154 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6155 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6156 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6157 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6158 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6159 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6163 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6165 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6169 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6171 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6172 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6173 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6174 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6179 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6181 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6182 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6186 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6188 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6189 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6193 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6195 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6196 sections of shared libraries.
6197 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6198 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6199 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6200 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6201 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6202 things you don't want them to.
6203 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6204 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6208 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6210 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6211 shared libraries. (#26414)
6213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6215 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6217 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6218 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6219 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6220 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6224 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6226 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6228 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6230 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6231 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6232 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6233 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6234 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6238 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6240 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6241 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6245 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6247 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6248 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6249 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6254 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6256 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6257 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6261 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6263 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6264 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6265 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6266 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6267 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6268 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6270 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6271 remove debian/files properly.
6272 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6273 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6274 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6275 * Removed bogus menu file.
6277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6279 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6281 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6282 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6286 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6288 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6289 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6290 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6291 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6292 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6293 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6294 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6298 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6300 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6301 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6302 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6303 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6304 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6308 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6310 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6315 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6317 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6318 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6319 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6321 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6322 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6323 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6324 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6325 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6326 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6330 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6332 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6333 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6334 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6335 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6336 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6337 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6338 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6339 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6340 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6341 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6342 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6343 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6344 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6345 passed any switches.
6346 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6350 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6352 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6353 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6354 at all for a long while.
6355 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6356 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6357 large chunks in the process.
6358 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6359 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6360 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6365 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6367 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6368 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6370 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6375 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6377 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6378 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6379 that don't always have the same files in them.
6380 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6381 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6382 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6386 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6388 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6390 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6391 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6392 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6393 updating 27 man pages.
6394 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6395 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6396 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6397 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6398 programs act on. (#25247)
6400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6402 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6406 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6407 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6408 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6409 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6410 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6411 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6416 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6418 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6423 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6425 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6430 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6432 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6433 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6437 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6439 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6443 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6445 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6446 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6447 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6448 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6449 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6450 package by accident.
6451 * Is version 1.0 next?
6453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6455 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6457 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6458 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6459 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6463 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6465 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6466 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6467 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6468 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6469 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6470 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6472 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6477 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6479 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6480 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6481 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6485 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6487 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6488 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6492 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6494 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6495 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6496 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6501 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6503 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6507 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6509 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6510 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6511 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6516 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6518 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6522 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6524 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6525 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6526 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6527 past week. Thanks, guys!
6529 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6530 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6531 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6532 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6533 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6534 would do in the same situation.
6535 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6536 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6538 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6540 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6541 permissions changed.
6542 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6543 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6544 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6545 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6546 files are treated identically.
6547 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6548 * Minor man page fixes.
6549 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6550 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6551 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6555 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6557 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6558 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6559 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6560 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6561 use -X multiple times, too.
6562 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6563 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6567 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6569 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6570 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6571 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6575 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6577 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6578 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6582 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6584 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6585 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6586 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6587 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6588 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6589 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6590 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6591 shape if you're starting a new package.
6593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6595 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6597 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6598 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6602 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6604 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6605 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6606 because of missing symlinks.
6608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6610 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6612 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6616 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6618 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6619 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6620 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6621 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6622 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6623 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6625 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6626 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6630 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6632 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6633 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6634 to be changed after the fact :-)
6635 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6639 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6641 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6642 no version string after the -V.
6644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6646 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6648 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6649 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6654 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6656 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6657 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6661 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6663 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6664 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6665 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6666 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6667 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6668 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6669 I always welcome corrections!
6671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6673 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6675 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6679 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6681 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6682 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6683 * Documented this new switch.
6685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6687 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6689 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6690 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6691 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6692 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6693 no packages use the old behavior.
6695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6697 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6699 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6700 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6701 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6705 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6707 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6708 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6712 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6714 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6718 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6720 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6721 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6725 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6727 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6728 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6729 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6730 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6734 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6736 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6740 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6742 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6743 into the source package by accident.
6745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6747 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6749 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6750 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6751 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6752 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6753 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6754 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6755 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6760 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6762 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6764 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6765 inspired to implement some of it.
6766 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6770 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6772 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6773 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6777 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6779 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6780 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6781 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6785 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6787 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6788 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6789 have done.) (#17598)
6791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6793 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6795 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6799 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6801 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6805 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6807 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6808 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6812 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6814 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6815 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6816 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6820 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6822 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6823 argument processor in perl.
6824 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6825 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6826 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6827 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6831 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6833 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6834 type directories. (#16933)
6835 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6836 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6837 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6838 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6839 are supported. (#16935)
6840 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6845 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6847 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6848 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6852 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6854 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6856 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6857 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6858 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6859 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6860 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6861 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6865 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6867 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6868 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6869 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6871 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6872 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6873 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6874 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6875 a given package, or -i or -a.
6876 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6877 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6878 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6879 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6880 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6881 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6882 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6883 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6884 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6886 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6887 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6888 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6892 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6894 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6895 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6896 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6901 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6903 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6904 does not have a section.
6906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6908 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6910 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6911 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6912 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6913 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6917 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6919 * Fixed typo #16215.
6921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6923 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6925 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6926 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6927 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6928 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6929 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6930 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6935 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6937 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6938 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6939 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6940 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6945 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6947 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6951 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6953 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6957 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6959 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6960 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6961 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6962 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6963 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6964 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6965 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6969 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6971 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6975 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6977 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6978 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6982 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6984 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6985 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6986 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6987 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6991 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6993 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6994 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6998 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
7000 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
7002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
7004 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
7006 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
7007 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
7009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
7011 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
7013 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
7014 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
7016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
7018 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
7020 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
7022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
7024 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
7026 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
7027 postinst, postrm, etc.
7029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
7031 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
7033 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
7035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
7037 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
7039 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
7040 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
7041 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
7042 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
7043 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
7044 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
7046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
7048 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
7050 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
7051 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
7052 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
7054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
7056 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
7058 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
7059 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
7061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
7063 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
7065 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
7066 installing package files into.
7067 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7072 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7074 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7076 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7080 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7082 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7086 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7088 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7089 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7093 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7095 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7096 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7097 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7098 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7099 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7103 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7105 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7106 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7107 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7108 multiple binary packages.
7109 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7110 should rebuild them with this version.
7111 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7115 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7117 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7118 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7122 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7124 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7125 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7129 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7131 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7132 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7133 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7134 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7135 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7136 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7137 debian/README.debian.
7138 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7139 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7140 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7141 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7142 in a few situations.)
7144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7146 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7148 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7152 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7154 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7158 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7160 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7161 * Fixed several man pages.
7163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7165 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7167 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7168 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7169 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7173 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7175 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7176 is ready for general use.
7177 * Added man pages for all commands.
7178 * Multiple binary package support.
7179 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7180 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7181 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7183 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7184 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7185 auto-installed as parameters.
7186 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7188 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7191 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7192 the package build directory it is to act on.
7193 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7194 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7195 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7199 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7201 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7202 ready to replace debstd.
7204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400