1 debhelper (9.20120420) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_installman: Recognize sections from mdoc .Dt entries. Closes: #670210
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:52:22 -0400
8 debhelper (9.20120419) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Fix compat level checking for cmake. Closes: #669181
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:35 -0400
14 debhelper (9.20120418) unstable; urgency=low
16 * cmake: Only pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS in v9.
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:39 -0400
20 debhelper (9.20120417) unstable; urgency=low
22 * cmake: Pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS. Closes: #668813
23 Thanks, Simon Ruderich for the patch and for verifying no affected
24 package is broken by this change.
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:29 -0400
28 debhelper (9.20120410) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891
32 * Conflict with too old automake for AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. Closes: #666901
33 * dh_md5sums: Don't skip DEBIAN directories other than the control files
37 * dh_installinit: rework upstart handling to comply with new policy
38 proposal; packages will ship both an init script and an upstart job,
39 instead of just an upstart job and a symlink to a compat wrapper.
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:51:15 -0400
44 debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
47 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
48 Added to interface documentation.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400
53 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
59 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
61 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
62 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
63 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
64 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
66 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
67 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
68 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
69 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
70 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
75 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
78 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
79 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
80 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
81 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
82 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
83 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
87 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Typo. Closes: #653006
90 * Typo. Closes: #653339
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
94 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
96 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
97 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
98 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
99 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
100 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
101 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
105 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
107 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
108 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
109 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
110 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
111 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
112 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
113 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
114 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
118 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
120 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
124 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
126 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
127 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
128 may need to disable this.
129 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
130 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
131 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
132 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
136 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
139 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
140 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
144 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
146 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
147 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
148 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
150 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
151 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
152 to dh. Closes: #643069
153 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
154 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
158 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
160 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
161 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
162 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
163 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
164 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
166 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
167 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
168 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
170 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
171 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
172 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
173 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
174 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
175 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
176 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
177 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
178 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
179 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
180 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
181 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
182 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
183 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
184 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
188 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
195 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
197 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
198 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
200 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
206 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
208 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
209 Use override targets instead.
210 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
211 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
212 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
213 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
214 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
215 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
216 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
217 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
218 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
219 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
224 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
226 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
227 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
231 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
233 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
237 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
239 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
240 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
241 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
242 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
243 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
244 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
245 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
249 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
251 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
252 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
253 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
254 the targets. Closes: #629139
255 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
256 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
257 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
258 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
259 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
260 are already set to other values will not be changed.
262 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
263 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
264 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
265 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
266 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
271 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
273 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
277 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
280 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
281 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
285 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
287 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
288 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
289 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
290 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
291 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
292 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
293 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
294 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
299 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
303 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
304 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
306 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
307 changes may be added to that mode.
308 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
309 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
310 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
311 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
312 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
313 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
314 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
315 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
316 * Removed old example rules files.
317 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
321 * update french translation.
322 * Fix french misspelling.
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
326 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
329 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
333 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
336 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
337 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
338 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
339 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
340 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
341 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
342 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
346 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
349 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
350 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
351 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
352 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
353 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
354 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
356 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
357 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
358 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
359 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
360 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
361 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
362 (Thanks, David Prévot)
363 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
364 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
365 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
366 target fails. Closes: #601037
367 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
369 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
370 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
371 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
372 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
373 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
375 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
376 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
378 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
379 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
380 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
382 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
384 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
387 * update french translation.
388 * Fix french misspelling.
389 * French translation update after massive man page typography
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
393 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
396 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
399 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
403 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
405 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
409 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
411 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
412 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
413 introduced by the fix to #527990.
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
417 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
419 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
420 changes are planned for that mode.
421 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
422 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
423 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
424 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
425 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
426 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
427 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
428 (genesis) still uses them.
429 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
430 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
431 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
432 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
433 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
434 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
435 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
436 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
437 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
438 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
439 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
440 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
441 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
442 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
443 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
444 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
445 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
446 commands. (See #570039)
447 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
449 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
454 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
458 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
459 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
460 in control file or debhelper config files.
461 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
465 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
467 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
468 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
469 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
473 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
475 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
476 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
480 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
482 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
483 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
484 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
488 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
490 * Updated French translation.
491 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
492 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
493 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
494 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
496 * Typo. Closes: #571968
497 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
498 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
499 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
500 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
501 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
502 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
503 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
504 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
505 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
507 * dh: Improve documentation.
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
511 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
513 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
514 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
515 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
519 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
521 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
522 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
526 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
529 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
533 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
536 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
537 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
538 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
539 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
540 options that they do not support.
541 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
542 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
543 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
544 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
545 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
546 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
551 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
553 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
555 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
556 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
557 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
558 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
559 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
560 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
561 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
562 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
563 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
567 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
569 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
570 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
571 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
572 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
573 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
577 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Typo. Closes: #558654
580 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
581 installed. Closes: #558782
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
585 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
587 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
588 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
589 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
590 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
591 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
592 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
596 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
598 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
599 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
600 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
601 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
605 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
607 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
608 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
609 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
613 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
615 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
619 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
621 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
622 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
623 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
624 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
625 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
626 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
627 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
628 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
629 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
630 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
631 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
632 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
633 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
634 time soon.) Closes: #554509
635 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
637 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
638 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
639 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
640 document id. Closes: #555677
641 * Typo. Closes: #555659
642 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
643 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
644 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
645 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
647 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
648 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
649 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
654 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
657 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
658 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
659 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
660 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
661 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
662 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
663 translation (#494300 part 2)
666 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
668 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
669 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
670 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
671 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
672 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
676 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
679 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
680 (It was only run once due to logging.)
681 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
682 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
683 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
684 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
685 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
686 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
687 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
688 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
689 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
690 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
694 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
698 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
701 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
702 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
706 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
709 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
710 flag with arch all/any packages.
711 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
712 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
713 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
714 situation. Closes: #540794
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
718 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
720 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
722 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
723 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
724 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
725 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
726 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
729 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
730 the default. Closes: #538201
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
735 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
737 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
739 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
740 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
741 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
742 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
743 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
745 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
746 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
747 * Above Closes: #491117
748 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
753 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
756 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
759 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
760 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
761 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
765 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
768 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
769 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
770 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
771 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
772 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
777 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
780 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
781 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
785 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
787 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
791 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
793 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
794 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
796 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
797 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
798 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
802 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
804 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
805 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
809 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
811 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
815 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
817 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
818 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
819 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
824 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
826 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
830 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
833 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
834 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
835 created by using `python' first during build and install.
837 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
842 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
844 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
848 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
850 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
851 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
855 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
857 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
861 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
863 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
867 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
869 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
870 contributed by Modestas Vainius
871 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
872 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
873 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
874 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
875 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
876 that support it. Closes: #480577
877 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
878 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
879 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
881 - Adds support for cmake.
882 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
883 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
885 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
887 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
888 that use them. The options are:
889 --sourcedir, --destdir
890 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
891 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
892 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
893 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
894 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
898 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
900 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
904 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
906 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
907 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
908 default. Closes: #537140
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
912 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
915 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
916 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
920 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
922 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
923 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
927 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
930 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
934 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
937 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
939 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
940 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
941 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
945 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
948 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
949 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
950 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
954 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
956 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
957 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
958 warning or deprecation message.
959 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
960 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
961 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
962 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
963 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
964 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
965 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
966 Closes: #534639, #357434
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
970 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
976 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
978 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
979 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
980 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
981 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
982 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
984 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
985 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
986 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
990 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
996 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
1003 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
1006 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
1010 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
1014 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
1015 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
1017 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
1018 file support. Closes: #494914
1019 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
1023 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
1026 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
1027 parameters. Closes: #527256
1028 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
1029 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
1030 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
1034 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
1037 (Patch from #459548)
1038 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
1039 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
1040 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1044 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1047 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1048 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1049 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1053 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1056 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1057 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1059 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1060 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1061 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1065 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1069 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1073 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1076 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1077 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1078 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1079 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1084 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1090 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1093 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1094 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1095 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1096 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1097 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1099 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1100 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1101 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1102 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1103 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1104 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1108 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1111 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1112 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1113 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1114 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1115 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1117 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1121 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1123 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1127 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1129 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1130 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1131 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1132 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1133 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1134 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1135 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1136 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1137 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1138 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1139 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1143 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1145 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1146 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1148 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1149 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1150 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1151 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1153 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1154 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1158 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1160 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1161 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1162 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1163 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1164 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1165 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1166 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1168 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1169 that uses them. Affected options are:
1170 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1171 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1172 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1173 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1174 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1175 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1176 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1177 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1178 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1179 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1180 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1181 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1185 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1192 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1198 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1201 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1203 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1204 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1205 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1206 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1207 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1208 than the old method.
1209 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1211 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1212 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1213 rules (see bug #509756).
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1217 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1223 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1224 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1225 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1226 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1230 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1233 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1234 empty files. Closes: #490937
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1238 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1244 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1251 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1254 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1255 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1256 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1257 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1262 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1264 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1265 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1266 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1267 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1271 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1274 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1275 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1276 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1277 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1278 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1282 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1289 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1292 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1293 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1294 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1295 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1296 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1297 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1298 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1299 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1300 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1304 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1307 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1308 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1309 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1310 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1312 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1313 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1314 breaking backwards compatibility.
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1318 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1321 message in perl 5.10.
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1325 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1331 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1334 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1338 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1341 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1345 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1348 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1349 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1350 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1351 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1352 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1353 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1354 logging by dh_listpackages.
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1358 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1361 run and there are no packages of that type.
1362 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1363 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1364 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1365 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1367 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1368 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1372 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1375 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1376 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1380 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1383 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1384 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1386 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1387 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1388 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1389 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1390 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1391 planned but not yet implemented.)
1392 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1393 if the Makefile has such a target.
1394 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1395 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1396 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1397 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1398 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1399 but not yet implemented.)
1400 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1401 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1402 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1403 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1404 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1406 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1408 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1409 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1411 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1412 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1413 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1418 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1421 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1422 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1426 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1428 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1429 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1430 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1434 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1440 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1446 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1449 just those installed by the program.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1453 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1456 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1457 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1461 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1464 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1465 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1466 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1467 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1471 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1474 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1475 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1479 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1482 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1483 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1487 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1490 with policy. Closes: #461392
1491 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1492 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1493 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1494 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1495 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1499 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1502 Closes: #460340, #460351
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1506 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1509 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1510 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1511 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1512 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1516 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1519 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1520 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1521 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1522 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1523 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1524 package build directory won't work.
1525 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1526 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1527 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1528 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1529 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1530 mode. Closes: #459426
1531 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1536 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1539 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1543 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1547 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1548 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1549 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1550 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1551 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1552 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1556 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1559 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1560 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1561 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1562 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1566 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1569 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1570 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1571 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1572 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1573 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1577 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1580 debian/package.triggers files.
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1584 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1587 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1591 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1594 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1595 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1596 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1597 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1602 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1605 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1609 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1612 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1613 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1615 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1620 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1624 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1625 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1626 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1630 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1637 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1644 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1647 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1649 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1650 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1651 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1653 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1654 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1655 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1659 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1662 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1663 * Update urls to web page.
1664 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1665 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1666 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1667 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1671 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1674 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1675 - typo in alternatives call
1676 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1678 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1679 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1683 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1686 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1691 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1697 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1703 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1706 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1708 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1709 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1710 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1711 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1712 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1713 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1714 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1715 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1716 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1717 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1718 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1722 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1725 package install. Closes: #415717
1726 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1727 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1728 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1729 script and then remove the python files.
1730 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1731 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1732 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1733 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1734 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1735 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1736 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1737 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1738 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1739 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1740 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1741 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1742 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1746 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * Correct typo in french translation
1752 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1753 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1755 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1757 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1758 Closes: #406921, #381940
1759 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1761 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1762 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1763 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1764 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1765 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1766 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1767 specified). Closes: #381851
1768 * Misc minor changes.
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1772 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1779 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1780 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1784 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1790 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1791 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1794 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1795 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1797 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1798 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1799 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1800 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1804 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1807 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1810 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1814 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1820 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1826 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1827 a difficult situation.
1828 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1829 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1830 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1831 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1832 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1833 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1834 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1835 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1836 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1837 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1841 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Non-maintainer upload.
1844 * Update of dh_python
1845 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1846 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1848 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1849 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1850 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1851 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1852 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1854 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1856 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Non-maintainer upload.
1859 * Update of dh_python
1860 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1861 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1862 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1863 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1864 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1865 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1866 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1867 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1868 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1869 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1871 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1872 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1873 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1874 the not too-distant future).
1875 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1876 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1877 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1878 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1879 thus made the build fail.
1881 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1883 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Non-maintainer upload.
1886 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1888 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1890 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1893 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1894 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1895 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1896 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1897 package. Closes: #301424
1898 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1899 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1900 fonts). Closes: #372686
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1904 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1910 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1911 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1912 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1913 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1914 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1915 above, but already depends on that.
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1919 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1922 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1923 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1924 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1925 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1926 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1930 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1936 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1942 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1943 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1947 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1950 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1954 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1958 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1959 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1960 new version (0.24.1).
1961 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1962 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1965 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1966 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1967 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1968 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1969 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1970 new directory on their own.
1971 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1972 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1976 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1979 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1980 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1981 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1982 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1986 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1989 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1990 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1991 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1992 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1993 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1997 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
2003 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * Typo. Closes: #358904
2007 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
2008 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
2012 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2013 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
2017 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
2019 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
2020 || exit 0 instead of the intended
2022 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
2023 ignored. Closes: #337664
2025 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
2030 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
2036 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
2041 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
2042 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2043 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2044 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2045 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2046 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2047 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2051 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2054 version. Closes: #350607
2055 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2056 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2057 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2058 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2062 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2065 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2066 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2067 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2071 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2078 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2084 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2087 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2091 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2094 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2095 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2096 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2097 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2098 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2099 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2103 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2106 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2107 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2112 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2115 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2119 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2122 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2126 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2129 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2130 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2131 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2132 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2133 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2134 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2138 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2142 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2143 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2144 link. Closes: #346405
2145 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2147 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2148 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2149 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2150 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2151 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2152 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2153 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2157 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2164 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2170 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2173 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2177 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2180 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2185 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2189 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2190 installed. Closes: #342033
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2194 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2197 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2198 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2199 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2204 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2210 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2216 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2220 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2221 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2222 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2226 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2229 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2234 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2241 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2247 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2250 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2251 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2252 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2253 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2254 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2255 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2256 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2258 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2262 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2265 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2266 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2270 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2273 in standard man dirs.
2274 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2278 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2284 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2287 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2292 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2299 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2306 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2309 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2310 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2314 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2317 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2318 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2319 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2321 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2323 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2329 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2335 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2338 mode. Closes: #324161
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2342 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2345 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2346 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2347 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2348 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2353 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2356 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2357 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2358 is necesary for sanity.
2359 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2360 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2365 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2367 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2368 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2372 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2375 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2379 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2385 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2388 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2389 released, so use at your own risk.
2390 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2391 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2393 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2394 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2395 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2396 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2397 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2398 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2399 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2400 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2401 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2402 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2403 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2404 including twice per config file line now..
2405 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2406 and simplfy the rules file.
2407 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2408 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2409 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2411 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2412 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2416 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2419 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2423 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2426 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2430 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2433 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2437 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2440 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2441 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2442 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2443 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2444 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2445 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2449 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2452 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2453 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2454 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2459 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2462 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2463 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2468 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2471 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2472 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2473 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2478 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2481 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2482 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2483 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2487 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2493 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2500 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2503 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2504 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2505 unknown. Closes: #282924
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2509 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2516 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Spanish man page updates.
2519 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2524 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2530 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2533 * dh_desktop: reindent
2534 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2535 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2539 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2545 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2547 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2551 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2553 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2557 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2560 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2561 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2565 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2571 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2577 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2584 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2587 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2591 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2594 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2595 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2596 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2597 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2598 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2599 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2601 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2602 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2603 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2604 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2605 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2606 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2607 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2608 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2609 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2610 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2611 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2612 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2613 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2614 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2615 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2616 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2620 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2627 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2630 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2634 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2637 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2641 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2644 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2648 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2651 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2655 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2661 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2667 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2673 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2676 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2677 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2678 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2682 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2685 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2689 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2692 but occasionally right and necessary.
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2696 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2699 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2700 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2701 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2702 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2703 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2707 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2710 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2712 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2713 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2714 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2715 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2716 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2717 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2718 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2719 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2720 postinst scripts for udebs.
2721 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2725 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2728 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2730 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2731 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2735 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2741 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2748 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2755 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2758 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2762 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2765 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2769 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2772 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2775 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2776 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2780 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2786 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2789 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2793 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2796 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2797 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2798 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2800 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2802 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2803 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2804 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2808 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2811 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2816 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2819 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2820 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2821 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2826 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2832 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2838 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2841 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2842 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2843 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2844 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2845 associated -dbg packages.
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2849 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2852 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2856 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2859 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2863 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2866 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2870 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2873 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2878 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2881 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2885 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2888 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2893 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2896 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2900 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2904 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2905 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2906 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2907 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2908 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2909 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2910 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2911 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2912 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2913 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2917 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2920 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2925 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2928 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2929 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2933 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2936 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2937 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2942 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2945 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2949 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2952 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2956 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2959 out section number. Closes: #204731
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2963 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2970 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2976 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2982 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2985 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2986 removal. Closes: #204286
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2990 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2993 renaming. Closes: #203548
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2997 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
3000 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
3001 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
3005 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
3011 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
3017 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
3023 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
3026 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
3027 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
3028 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
3032 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
3035 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
3036 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
3040 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3046 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3053 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3056 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3061 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3064 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3068 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3071 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3073 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3074 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3078 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3081 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3086 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3089 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3093 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3099 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3101 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3105 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3108 it break hard links (see #188663).
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3112 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3115 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3119 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3125 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3129 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3130 debconf-mergetemplates
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3134 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3137 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3141 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3144 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3148 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3151 * Update debhelper(1).
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3155 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3158 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3159 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3160 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3161 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3162 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3166 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3169 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3170 the shell. Closes: #178524
3171 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3175 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3178 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3182 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3185 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3189 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3192 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3193 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3194 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3195 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3200 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3203 files from installation.
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3207 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3210 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3211 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3215 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3218 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3222 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3225 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3229 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3235 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3241 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3245 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3246 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3248 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3252 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3255 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3256 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3257 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3258 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3262 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3265 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3269 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3272 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3273 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3277 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3281 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3286 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3292 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3296 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3297 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3298 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3303 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3306 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3307 practice. Closes: #163303
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3311 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3317 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3324 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3327 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3329 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3330 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3331 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3332 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3333 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3337 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3340 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3345 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3347 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3351 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3358 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3361 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3366 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3372 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3378 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3384 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3391 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3394 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3395 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3396 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3397 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3402 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3408 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3415 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3418 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3419 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3423 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3426 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3427 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3428 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3429 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3430 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3434 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3437 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3439 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3444 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3447 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3451 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3453 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3454 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3455 right thing. Closes: #150644
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3459 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * Stupid, evil typo.
3462 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3466 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3473 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3476 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3477 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3482 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3488 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3491 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3495 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3498 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3499 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3504 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3507 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3511 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3513 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3517 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3520 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3521 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3525 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3531 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * Removing perl warning message.
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3537 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3540 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3541 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3542 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3543 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3544 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3545 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3546 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3547 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3551 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3557 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3564 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3567 debconf-mergetemplate.
3568 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3569 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3573 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3576 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3577 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3578 dh_install, which ...
3579 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3580 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3581 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3582 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3583 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3584 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3585 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3586 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3587 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3588 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3589 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3590 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3591 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3592 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3593 other minor changes.
3594 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3595 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3596 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3597 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3598 course there's -X ..)
3599 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3600 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3601 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3603 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3604 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3605 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3606 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3607 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3612 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3618 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3621 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3625 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3631 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3637 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3643 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3645 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3649 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3652 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3653 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3654 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3655 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3657 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3658 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3662 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3668 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3671 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3675 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3678 upset. Closes: #131322
3680 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3682 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3685 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3686 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3687 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3688 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3689 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3690 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3691 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3692 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3693 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3694 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3695 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3696 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3697 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3698 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3699 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3701 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3705 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3708 - Better indenting of generated code.
3709 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3713 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3717 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3718 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3719 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3720 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3721 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3722 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3723 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3727 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3730 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3734 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3737 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3738 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3739 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3740 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3741 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3742 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3743 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3744 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3745 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3746 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3747 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3748 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3749 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3750 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3751 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3756 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3762 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3765 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3766 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3770 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3773 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3774 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3778 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3784 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3787 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3788 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3789 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3790 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3791 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3796 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3802 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3805 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3809 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3812 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3817 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3823 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3826 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3830 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3836 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3840 Also some indentation fixes.
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3844 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3847 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3848 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3849 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3850 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3851 Closes: #106514, #85520
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3855 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3861 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3863 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3867 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3873 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3879 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3885 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3888 change it in debhelper v4..
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3892 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3898 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3901 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3905 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3908 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3912 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3918 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3920 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3921 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3922 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3923 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3924 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3925 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3926 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3927 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3928 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3929 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3930 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3931 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3932 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3936 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3939 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3943 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3950 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3953 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3954 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3955 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3956 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3957 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3958 program those options go to. So, for example,
3959 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3960 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3961 something complex. Closes: #89311
3962 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3966 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3969 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3970 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3971 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3975 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3978 through loop. Closes: #98598
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3982 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * Missing semi-colon.
3985 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3986 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3990 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3992 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3993 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3994 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3995 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3999 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
4002 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
4003 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
4007 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
4010 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
4014 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
4017 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
4018 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
4022 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
4025 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
4026 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
4027 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
4031 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
4034 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
4035 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
4036 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
4040 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4043 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4047 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4049 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4053 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4059 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4065 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4067 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4071 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4074 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4078 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4081 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4082 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4083 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4084 followed. Closes: #85483
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4088 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4090 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4091 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4092 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4096 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4098 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4099 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4100 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4101 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4102 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4103 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4104 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4105 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4106 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4107 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4108 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4109 Closes: #88464, #77743
4110 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4111 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4112 us to deal with that gracefully.
4113 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4115 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4116 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4117 a while, Closes: #51225
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4121 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4127 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4130 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4134 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4138 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4143 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4146 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4147 don't make packlist files.
4148 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4149 debhelper coding standards.
4150 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4151 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4155 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4158 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4162 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4165 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4166 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4167 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4168 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4169 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4170 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4171 but is mildly deprecated.
4172 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4173 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4174 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4175 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4176 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4177 switching to statoverrides..
4178 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4179 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4180 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4181 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4182 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4183 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4185 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4186 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4187 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4188 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4189 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4190 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4191 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4192 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4193 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4195 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4196 variable names, pod man pages).
4197 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4198 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4199 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4200 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4201 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4202 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4203 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4207 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4209 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4213 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4220 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4222 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4223 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4227 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4229 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4230 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4231 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4235 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4237 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4238 they were previously ignored.
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4242 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4244 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4245 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4249 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4251 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4252 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4253 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4257 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4259 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4263 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4265 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4266 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4270 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4272 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4273 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4274 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4275 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4276 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4277 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4278 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4279 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4280 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4281 it is an obsolete program.
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4285 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4287 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4291 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4295 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4297 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4301 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4303 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4305 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4307 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4311 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4317 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * typo: Closes, #78567
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4323 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4329 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4331 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4335 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4338 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4339 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4340 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4341 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4342 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4346 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4349 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4354 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4357 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4358 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4359 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4360 backwards-compatibility.
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4364 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4367 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4368 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4369 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4370 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4371 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4372 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4374 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4375 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4376 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4378 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4380 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4381 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4382 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4383 should now be raised to severity important..
4384 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4385 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4389 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4392 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4397 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4399 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4403 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4409 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4411 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4415 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4422 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4425 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4426 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4427 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4428 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4432 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4434 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4438 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4441 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4442 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4443 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4444 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4445 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4446 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4451 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4454 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4458 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4460 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4464 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4466 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4467 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4472 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4475 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4476 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4477 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4478 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4482 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4486 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4489 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4492 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4493 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4496 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4498 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4499 the TODO entry about it.
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4503 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4510 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4513 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4514 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4518 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4521 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4522 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4523 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4524 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4528 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4534 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4541 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4544 (this appears to be logal).
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4548 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4551 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4552 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4553 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4554 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4558 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4560 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4564 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4566 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4567 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4568 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4569 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4570 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4574 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4580 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4583 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4587 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4594 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4597 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4598 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4599 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4604 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4611 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4617 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4620 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4621 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4622 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4623 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4624 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4625 notice until v2 is complete.
4626 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
4627 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4628 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4629 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4630 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4631 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4633 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4634 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4635 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4636 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4640 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4646 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4653 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4656 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4660 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4667 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4670 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4671 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4672 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4673 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4678 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4680 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4681 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4682 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4683 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4688 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4691 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4692 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4696 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4698 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4699 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4703 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4706 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4710 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4717 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4720 depend on the build and install targets.
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4724 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4727 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4731 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4738 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4740 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4744 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4750 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4753 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4754 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4755 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4756 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4757 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4758 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4760 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4761 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4762 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4763 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4764 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4765 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4766 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4770 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4772 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4776 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4782 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4785 right place. Closes: #55065
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4789 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4796 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4798 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4799 * Copyright date updates.
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4803 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4806 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4811 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4817 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4824 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4830 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4836 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4838 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4842 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4845 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4846 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4847 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4848 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4849 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4850 bits until all files have been registered.
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4854 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * dh_installmanpages:
4857 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4858 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4859 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4860 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4861 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4862 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4863 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4864 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4865 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4866 otherwise change the result at all.
4868 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4869 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4870 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4871 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4872 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4877 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4883 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4885 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4886 act on files that don't exist.
4887 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4888 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4889 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4891 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4892 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4893 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4894 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4898 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4904 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4910 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4913 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4917 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4920 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4922 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4923 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4924 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4928 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4931 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4932 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4933 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4934 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4935 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4936 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4937 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4939 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4941 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4945 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4947 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4952 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4954 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4958 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4964 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4967 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4971 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4977 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4983 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4985 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4986 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4987 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4988 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4989 I made some changes, though:
4990 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4991 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4992 that is a clear violation of policy.
4993 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4994 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4995 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4996 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4997 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4998 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4999 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
5000 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
5001 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
5003 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
5005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
5007 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5009 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
5013 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
5016 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
5018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
5020 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5022 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
5023 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
5024 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
5029 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
5035 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
5042 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5045 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5046 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5047 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5048 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5049 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5050 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5051 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5055 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5057 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5061 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5063 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5065 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5066 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5070 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5076 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5078 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5079 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5083 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5085 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5086 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5087 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5091 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5093 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5098 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5102 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5106 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5108 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5109 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5110 for the dependancies to be generated.
5112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5114 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5116 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5117 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5121 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5123 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5124 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5125 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5126 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5131 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5134 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5135 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5139 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5145 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5151 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5154 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5158 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5160 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5164 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5167 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5168 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5169 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5170 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5171 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5172 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5173 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5174 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5175 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5176 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5177 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5178 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5182 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5184 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5185 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5186 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5188 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5189 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5190 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5191 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5192 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5193 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5195 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5196 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5200 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5202 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5203 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5207 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5214 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5217 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5222 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5224 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5225 for building debhelper.
5226 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5230 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5232 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5237 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5240 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5244 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5246 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5247 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5248 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5249 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5250 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5251 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5252 it's always available.
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5256 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5259 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5260 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5261 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5265 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5267 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5268 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5269 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5273 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5279 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5281 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5282 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5286 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5288 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5292 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5294 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5295 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5296 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5297 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5301 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5303 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5304 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5309 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5311 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5312 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5313 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5315 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5316 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5320 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5322 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5326 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5332 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5334 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5335 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5339 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5342 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5343 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5345 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5349 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5352 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5353 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5354 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5358 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5361 things if CDPATH is set.
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5365 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5371 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5374 seems to make sense for the transition.
5376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5378 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5380 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5381 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5386 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5388 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5389 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5390 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5394 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5397 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5401 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5404 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5405 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5406 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5407 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5411 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5413 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5417 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5419 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5420 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5421 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5422 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5423 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5424 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5425 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5426 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5427 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5428 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5429 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
5432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5434 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5436 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5437 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5438 * README: mention doc/v2
5439 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5440 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5444 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5446 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5447 be using this script RSN.
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5451 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5453 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5454 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5455 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5456 more than 1 init script.
5458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5460 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5462 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5463 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5467 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5469 * Changed perl version detection.
5470 * Changed call to find.
5472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5474 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5476 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5477 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5479 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5484 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5486 * Really include dh_installpam.
5488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5490 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5492 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5493 * Wrote man page for same.
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5497 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5499 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5500 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5501 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5506 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5508 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5513 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5516 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5517 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5518 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5519 x bit was being set!
5521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5523 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5525 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5526 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5527 well. (Closes: 38900)
5529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5531 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5533 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5534 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5535 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5539 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5545 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5547 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5552 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5554 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5558 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5561 help from Julian Gilbey.
5562 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5563 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5564 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5565 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5566 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5567 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5568 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5573 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5575 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5579 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5586 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5592 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5594 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5598 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5601 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5605 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5608 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5612 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5614 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5615 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5619 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5621 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5625 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5628 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5632 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5634 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5638 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5640 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5644 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5646 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5647 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5648 may be deleted. (#35845)
5650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5652 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5654 * Various man page enhancements.
5655 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5660 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5662 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5663 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5664 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5668 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5670 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5671 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5672 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5673 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5675 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5676 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5681 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5683 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5687 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5689 * Another very minor typo fix.
5691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5693 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5695 * Very minor typo fix.
5697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5699 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5701 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5702 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5703 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5707 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5709 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5713 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5716 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5717 variables properly (#34850).
5719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5721 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5723 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5727 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5729 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5730 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5731 (automatically generated by build process).
5733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5735 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5737 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5741 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5743 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5744 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5745 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5747 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5751 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5753 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5754 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5758 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * README: minor typo fix.
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5764 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5767 leave it at that. :-)
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5771 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5777 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5779 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5783 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5785 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5786 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5787 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5788 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5792 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5794 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5795 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5799 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5801 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5802 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5806 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5808 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5809 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5810 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5811 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5812 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5816 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5818 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5819 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5820 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5821 Craig Small for spotting this.
5823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5825 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5827 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5828 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5829 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5833 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5835 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5839 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5841 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5842 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5846 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5848 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5849 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5850 working on the last version of debhelper.
5852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5854 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5856 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5857 being made. (#23255)
5859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5861 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5863 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5867 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5869 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5870 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5874 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5876 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5877 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5878 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5879 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5880 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5884 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5886 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5887 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5888 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5889 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5890 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5892 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5893 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5895 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5900 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5902 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5906 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5908 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5912 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5914 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5915 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5916 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5917 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5918 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5919 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5920 suidregister actually supports it.
5921 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5922 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5926 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5928 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5933 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5935 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5936 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5937 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5938 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5939 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5940 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5941 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5942 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5946 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5948 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5949 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5953 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5955 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5956 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5957 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5958 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5959 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5963 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5965 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5966 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5968 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5969 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5970 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5971 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5972 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5973 effect, either. (#30118)
5975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5977 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5979 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5983 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5985 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5986 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5987 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5991 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5993 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5997 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5999 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
6000 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
6001 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
6002 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
6003 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
6005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
6007 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
6009 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
6010 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
6011 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
6013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
6015 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
6017 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
6019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
6021 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
6023 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
6024 packages, painlessly.
6026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
6028 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
6030 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
6032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
6034 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
6036 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
6038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
6040 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
6042 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6046 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6048 * The perl conversion is complete.
6050 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6052 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6053 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6054 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6059 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6061 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6062 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6063 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6064 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6068 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6070 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6071 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6073 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6075 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6076 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6080 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6082 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6083 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6084 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6088 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6090 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6094 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6096 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6097 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6098 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6099 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6100 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6101 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6105 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6107 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6108 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6109 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6110 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6111 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6115 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6117 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6118 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6122 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6124 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6125 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6126 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6127 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6128 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6129 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6130 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6131 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6132 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6136 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6138 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6142 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6144 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6145 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6146 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6147 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6152 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6154 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6155 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6159 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6161 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6162 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6166 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6168 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6169 sections of shared libraries.
6170 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6171 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6172 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6173 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6174 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6175 things you don't want them to.
6176 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6177 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6181 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6183 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6184 shared libraries. (#26414)
6186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6188 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6190 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6191 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6192 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6193 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6197 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6199 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6201 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6203 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6204 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6205 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6206 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6207 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6211 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6213 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6214 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6218 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6220 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6221 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6222 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6227 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6229 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6230 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6234 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6236 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6237 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6238 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6239 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6240 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6241 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6243 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6244 remove debian/files properly.
6245 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6246 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6247 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6248 * Removed bogus menu file.
6250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6252 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6254 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6255 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6259 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6261 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6262 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6263 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6264 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6265 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6266 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6267 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6271 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6273 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6274 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6275 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6276 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6277 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6281 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6283 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6288 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6290 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6291 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6292 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6294 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6295 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6296 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6297 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6298 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6299 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6303 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6305 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6306 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6307 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6308 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6309 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6310 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6311 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6312 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6313 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6314 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6315 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6316 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6317 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6318 passed any switches.
6319 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6323 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6325 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6326 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6327 at all for a long while.
6328 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6329 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6330 large chunks in the process.
6331 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6332 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6333 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6338 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6340 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6341 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6343 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6348 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6350 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6351 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6352 that don't always have the same files in them.
6353 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6354 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6355 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6359 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6361 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6363 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6364 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6365 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6366 updating 27 man pages.
6367 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6368 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6369 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6370 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6371 programs act on. (#25247)
6373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6375 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6379 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6380 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6381 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6382 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6383 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6384 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6389 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6391 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6396 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6398 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6403 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6405 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6406 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6410 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6412 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6416 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6418 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6419 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6420 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6421 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6422 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6423 package by accident.
6424 * Is version 1.0 next?
6426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6428 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6430 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6431 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6432 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6436 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6438 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6439 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6440 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6441 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6442 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6443 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6445 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6450 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6452 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6453 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6454 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6458 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6460 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6461 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6465 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6467 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6468 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6469 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6474 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6476 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6480 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6482 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6483 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6484 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6489 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6491 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6495 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6497 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6498 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6499 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6500 past week. Thanks, guys!
6502 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6503 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6504 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6505 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6506 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6507 would do in the same situation.
6508 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6509 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6511 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6513 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6514 permissions changed.
6515 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6516 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6517 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6518 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6519 files are treated identically.
6520 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6521 * Minor man page fixes.
6522 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6523 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6524 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6528 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6530 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6531 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6532 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6533 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6534 use -X multiple times, too.
6535 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6536 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6540 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6542 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6543 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6544 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6548 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6550 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6551 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6555 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6557 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6558 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6559 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6560 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6561 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6562 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6563 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6564 shape if you're starting a new package.
6566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6568 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6570 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6571 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6575 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6577 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6578 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6579 because of missing symlinks.
6581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6583 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6585 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6589 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6591 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6592 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6593 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6594 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6595 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6596 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6598 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6599 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6603 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6605 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6606 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6607 to be changed after the fact :-)
6608 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6612 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6614 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6615 no version string after the -V.
6617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6619 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6621 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6622 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6627 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6629 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6630 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6634 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6636 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6637 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6638 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6639 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6640 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6641 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6642 I always welcome corrections!
6644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6646 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6648 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6652 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6654 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6655 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6656 * Documented this new switch.
6658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6660 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6662 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6663 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6664 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6665 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6666 no packages use the old behavior.
6668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6670 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6672 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6673 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6674 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6678 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6680 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6681 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6685 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6687 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6691 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6693 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6694 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6698 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6700 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6701 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6702 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6703 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6707 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6709 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6713 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6715 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6716 into the source package by accident.
6718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6720 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6722 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6723 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6724 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6725 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6726 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6727 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6728 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6733 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6735 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6737 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6738 inspired to implement some of it.
6739 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6743 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6745 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6746 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6750 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6752 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6753 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6754 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6758 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6760 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6761 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6762 have done.) (#17598)
6764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6766 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6768 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6772 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6774 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6778 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6780 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6781 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6785 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6787 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6788 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6789 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6793 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6795 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6796 argument processor in perl.
6797 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6798 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6799 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6800 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6804 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6806 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6807 type directories. (#16933)
6808 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6809 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6810 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6811 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6812 are supported. (#16935)
6813 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6818 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6820 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6821 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6825 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6827 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6829 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6830 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6831 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6832 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6833 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6834 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6838 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6840 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6841 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6842 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6844 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6845 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6846 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6847 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6848 a given package, or -i or -a.
6849 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6850 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6851 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6852 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6853 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6854 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6855 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6856 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6857 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6859 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6860 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6861 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6865 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6867 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6868 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6869 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6874 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6876 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6877 does not have a section.
6879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6881 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6883 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6884 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6885 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6886 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6890 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6892 * Fixed typo #16215.
6894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6896 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6898 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6899 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6900 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6901 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6902 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6903 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6908 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6910 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6911 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6912 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6913 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6918 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6920 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6924 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6926 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6930 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6932 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6933 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6934 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6935 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6936 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6937 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6938 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6942 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6944 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6948 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6950 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6951 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6955 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6957 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6958 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6959 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6960 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6964 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6966 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6967 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6971 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6973 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6977 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6979 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6980 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6984 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6986 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6987 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6991 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6993 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6997 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6999 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
7000 postinst, postrm, etc.
7002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
7004 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
7006 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
7008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
7010 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
7012 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
7013 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
7014 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
7015 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
7016 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
7017 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
7019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
7021 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
7023 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
7024 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
7025 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
7027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
7029 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
7031 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
7032 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
7034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
7036 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
7038 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
7039 installing package files into.
7040 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7045 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7047 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7049 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7053 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7055 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7059 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7061 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7062 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7066 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7068 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7069 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7070 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7071 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7072 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7076 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7078 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7079 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7080 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7081 multiple binary packages.
7082 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7083 should rebuild them with this version.
7084 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7088 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7090 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7091 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7095 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7097 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7098 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7102 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7104 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7105 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7106 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7107 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7108 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7109 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7110 debian/README.debian.
7111 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7112 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7113 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7114 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7115 in a few situations.)
7117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7119 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7121 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7125 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7127 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7131 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7133 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7134 * Fixed several man pages.
7136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7138 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7140 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7141 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7142 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7146 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7148 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7149 is ready for general use.
7150 * Added man pages for all commands.
7151 * Multiple binary package support.
7152 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7153 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7154 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7156 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7157 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7158 auto-installed as parameters.
7159 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7161 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7164 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7165 the package build directory it is to act on.
7166 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7167 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7168 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7172 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7174 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7175 ready to replace debstd.
7177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400