1 debhelper (8.9.11) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:10 -0400
7 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
10 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
11 may need to disable this.
12 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
13 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
14 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
15 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
19 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
21 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
22 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
23 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
27 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
29 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
30 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
31 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
33 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
34 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
35 to dh. Closes: #643069
36 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
37 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
41 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
43 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
44 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
45 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
46 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
47 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
49 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
50 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
51 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
53 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
54 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
55 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
56 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
57 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
58 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
59 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
60 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
61 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
62 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
63 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
64 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
65 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
66 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
67 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
71 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
73 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
78 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
80 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
81 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
83 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
89 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
92 Use override targets instead.
93 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
94 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
95 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
96 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
97 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
98 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
99 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
100 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
101 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
102 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
107 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
109 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
110 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
114 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
116 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
120 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
122 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
123 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
124 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
125 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
126 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
127 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
128 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
132 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
135 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
136 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
137 the targets. Closes: #629139
138 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
139 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
140 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
141 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
142 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
143 are already set to other values will not be changed.
145 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
146 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
147 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
148 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
149 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
154 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
156 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
160 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
162 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
163 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
164 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
168 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
170 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
171 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
172 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
173 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
174 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
175 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
176 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
177 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
182 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
185 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
186 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
187 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
189 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
190 changes may be added to that mode.
191 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
192 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
193 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
194 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
195 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
196 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
197 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
198 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
199 * Removed old example rules files.
200 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
204 * update french translation.
205 * Fix french misspelling.
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
209 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
211 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
212 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
216 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
218 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
219 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
220 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
221 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
222 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
223 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
224 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
225 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
229 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
232 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
233 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
234 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
235 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
236 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
237 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
239 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
240 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
241 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
242 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
243 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
244 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
245 (Thanks, David Prévot)
246 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
247 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
248 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
249 target fails. Closes: #601037
250 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
252 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
253 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
254 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
255 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
256 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
258 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
259 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
261 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
262 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
263 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
265 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
267 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
270 * update french translation.
271 * Fix french misspelling.
272 * French translation update after massive man page typography
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
276 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
282 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
286 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
288 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
292 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
294 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
295 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
296 introduced by the fix to #527990.
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
300 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
302 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
303 changes are planned for that mode.
304 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
305 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
306 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
307 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
308 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
309 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
310 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
311 (genesis) still uses them.
312 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
313 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
314 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
315 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
316 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
317 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
318 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
319 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
320 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
321 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
322 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
323 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
324 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
325 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
326 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
327 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
328 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
329 commands. (See #570039)
330 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
332 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
337 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
339 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
341 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
342 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
343 in control file or debhelper config files.
344 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
348 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
350 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
351 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
352 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
356 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
359 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
363 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
365 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
366 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
367 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
371 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
373 * Updated French translation.
374 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
375 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
376 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
377 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
379 * Typo. Closes: #571968
380 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
381 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
382 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
383 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
384 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
385 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
386 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
387 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
388 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
390 * dh: Improve documentation.
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
394 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
396 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
397 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
398 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
402 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
404 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
405 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
409 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
411 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
412 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
416 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
418 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
419 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
420 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
421 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
422 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
423 options that they do not support.
424 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
425 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
426 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
427 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
428 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
429 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
434 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
436 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
438 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
439 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
440 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
441 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
442 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
443 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
444 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
445 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
446 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
450 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
453 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
454 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
455 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
456 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
460 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Typo. Closes: #558654
463 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
464 installed. Closes: #558782
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
468 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
471 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
472 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
473 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
474 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
475 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
479 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
481 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
482 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
483 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
484 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
488 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
490 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
491 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
492 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
496 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
498 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
502 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
504 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
505 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
506 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
507 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
508 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
509 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
510 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
511 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
512 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
513 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
514 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
515 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
516 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
517 time soon.) Closes: #554509
518 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
520 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
521 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
522 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
523 document id. Closes: #555677
524 * Typo. Closes: #555659
525 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
526 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
527 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
528 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
530 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
531 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
532 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
537 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
540 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
541 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
542 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
543 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
544 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
545 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
546 translation (#494300 part 2)
549 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
551 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
552 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
553 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
554 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
555 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
559 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
561 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
562 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
563 (It was only run once due to logging.)
564 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
565 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
566 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
567 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
568 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
569 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
570 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
571 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
572 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
573 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
577 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
580 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
581 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
584 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
585 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
589 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
592 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
593 flag with arch all/any packages.
594 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
595 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
596 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
597 situation. Closes: #540794
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
601 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
603 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
605 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
606 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
607 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
608 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
609 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
612 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
613 the default. Closes: #538201
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
618 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
622 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
623 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
624 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
625 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
626 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
628 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
629 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
630 * Above Closes: #491117
631 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
636 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
642 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
643 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
644 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
648 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
651 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
652 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
653 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
654 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
655 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
660 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
662 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
663 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
664 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
668 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
670 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
674 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
676 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
677 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
679 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
680 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
681 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
685 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
687 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
688 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
692 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
694 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
698 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
700 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
701 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
702 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
707 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
709 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
713 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
716 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
717 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
718 created by using `python' first during build and install.
720 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
725 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
727 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
731 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
733 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
734 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
738 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
740 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
744 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
746 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
750 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
752 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
753 contributed by Modestas Vainius
754 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
755 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
756 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
757 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
758 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
759 that support it. Closes: #480577
760 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
761 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
762 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
764 - Adds support for cmake.
765 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
766 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
768 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
770 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
771 that use them. The options are:
772 --sourcedir, --destdir
773 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
774 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
775 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
776 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
777 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
781 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
787 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
789 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
790 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
791 default. Closes: #537140
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
795 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
797 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
798 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
799 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
803 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
805 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
806 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
810 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
813 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
817 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
820 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
822 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
823 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
824 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
828 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
830 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
831 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
832 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
833 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
837 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
839 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
840 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
841 warning or deprecation message.
842 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
843 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
844 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
845 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
846 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
847 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
848 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
849 Closes: #534639, #357434
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
853 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
859 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
861 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
862 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
863 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
864 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
865 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
867 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
868 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
869 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
873 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
875 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
879 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
881 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
886 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
888 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
889 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
893 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
897 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
898 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
900 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
901 file support. Closes: #494914
902 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
906 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
908 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
909 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
910 parameters. Closes: #527256
911 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
912 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
913 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
917 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
919 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
921 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
922 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
923 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
927 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
930 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
931 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
932 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
936 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
938 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
939 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
940 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
942 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
943 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
944 by triggers). Closes: #521181
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
948 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
950 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
952 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
956 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
959 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
960 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
961 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
962 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
967 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
969 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
973 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
976 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
977 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
978 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
979 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
980 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
982 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
983 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
984 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
985 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
986 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
987 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
991 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
994 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
995 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
996 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
997 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
998 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1000 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1004 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1006 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1010 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1012 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1013 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1014 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1015 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1016 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1017 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1018 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1019 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1020 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1021 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1022 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1026 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1028 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1029 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1031 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1032 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1033 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1034 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1036 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1037 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1041 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1043 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1044 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1045 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1046 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1047 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1048 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1049 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1051 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1052 that uses them. Affected options are:
1053 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1054 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1055 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1056 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1057 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1058 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1059 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1060 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1061 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1062 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1063 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1064 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1068 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1075 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1081 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1084 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1086 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1087 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1088 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1089 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1090 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1091 than the old method.
1092 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1094 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1095 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1096 rules (see bug #509756).
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1100 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1106 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1107 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1108 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1109 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1113 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1116 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1117 empty files. Closes: #490937
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1121 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1127 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1134 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1137 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1138 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1139 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1140 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1145 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1147 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1148 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1149 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1150 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1154 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1157 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1158 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1159 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1160 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1161 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1165 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1172 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1175 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1176 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1177 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1178 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1179 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1180 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1181 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1182 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1183 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1187 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1190 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1191 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1192 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1193 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1195 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1196 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1197 breaking backwards compatibility.
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1201 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1204 message in perl 5.10.
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1208 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1214 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1217 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1221 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1224 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1228 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1231 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1232 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1233 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1234 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1235 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1236 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1237 logging by dh_listpackages.
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1241 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1244 run and there are no packages of that type.
1245 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1246 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1247 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1248 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1250 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1251 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1255 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1258 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1259 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1263 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1266 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1267 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1269 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1270 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1271 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1272 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1273 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1274 planned but not yet implemented.)
1275 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1276 if the Makefile has such a target.
1277 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1278 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1279 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1280 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1281 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1282 but not yet implemented.)
1283 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1284 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1285 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1286 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1287 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1289 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1291 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1292 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1294 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1295 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1296 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1301 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1304 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1305 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1309 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1311 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1312 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1313 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1317 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1323 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1329 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1332 just those installed by the program.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1336 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1339 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1340 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1344 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1347 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1348 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1349 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1350 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1354 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1357 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1358 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1362 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1365 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1366 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1370 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1373 with policy. Closes: #461392
1374 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1375 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1376 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1377 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1378 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1382 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1385 Closes: #460340, #460351
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1389 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1392 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1393 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1394 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1395 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1399 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1402 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1403 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1404 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1405 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1406 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1407 package build directory won't work.
1408 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1409 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1410 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1411 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1412 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1413 mode. Closes: #459426
1414 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1419 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1422 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1426 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1430 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1431 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1432 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1433 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1434 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1435 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1439 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1442 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1443 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1444 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1445 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1449 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1452 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1453 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1454 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1455 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1456 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1460 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1463 debian/package.triggers files.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1467 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1470 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1474 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1477 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1478 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1479 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1480 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1485 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1488 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1492 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1495 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1496 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1498 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1503 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1507 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1508 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1509 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1513 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1520 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1527 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1530 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1532 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1533 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1534 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1536 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1537 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1538 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1542 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1545 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1546 * Update urls to web page.
1547 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1548 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1549 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1550 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1554 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1557 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1558 - typo in alternatives call
1559 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1561 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1562 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1566 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1569 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1574 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1580 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1586 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1589 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1591 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1592 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1593 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1594 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1595 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1596 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1597 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1598 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1599 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1600 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1601 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1605 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1608 package install. Closes: #415717
1609 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1610 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1611 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1612 script and then remove the python files.
1613 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1614 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1615 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1616 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1617 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1618 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1619 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1620 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1621 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1622 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1623 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1624 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1625 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1629 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * Correct typo in french translation
1635 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1636 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1638 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1640 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1641 Closes: #406921, #381940
1642 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1644 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1645 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1646 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1647 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1648 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1649 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1650 specified). Closes: #381851
1651 * Misc minor changes.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1655 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1662 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1663 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1667 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1673 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1674 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1677 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1678 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1680 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1681 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1682 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1683 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1687 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1690 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1693 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1697 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1703 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1709 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1710 a difficult situation.
1711 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1712 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1713 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1714 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1715 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1716 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1717 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1718 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1719 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1720 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1724 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * Non-maintainer upload.
1727 * Update of dh_python
1728 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1729 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1731 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1732 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1733 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1734 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1735 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1737 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1739 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * Non-maintainer upload.
1742 * Update of dh_python
1743 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1744 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1745 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1746 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1747 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1748 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1749 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1750 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1751 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1752 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1754 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1755 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1756 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1757 the not too-distant future).
1758 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1759 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1760 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1761 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1762 thus made the build fail.
1764 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1766 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Non-maintainer upload.
1769 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1771 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1773 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1776 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1777 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1778 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1779 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1780 package. Closes: #301424
1781 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1782 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1783 fonts). Closes: #372686
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1787 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1793 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1794 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1795 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1796 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1797 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1798 above, but already depends on that.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1802 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1805 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1806 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1807 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1808 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1809 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1813 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1819 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1825 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1826 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1830 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1833 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1837 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1841 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1842 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1843 new version (0.24.1).
1844 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1845 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1848 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1849 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1850 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1851 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1852 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1853 new directory on their own.
1854 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1855 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1859 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1862 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1863 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1864 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1865 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1869 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1872 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1873 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1874 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1875 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1876 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1880 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1886 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1890 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1891 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1895 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1896 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1900 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1902 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1903 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1905 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1906 ignored. Closes: #337664
1908 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1913 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1919 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1924 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1925 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1926 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1927 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1928 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1929 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1930 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1934 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1937 version. Closes: #350607
1938 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1939 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1940 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1941 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1945 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1948 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1949 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1950 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1954 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1961 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1967 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1970 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1974 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1977 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1978 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1979 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1980 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1981 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1982 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1986 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1989 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1990 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1995 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1998 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2002 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2005 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2009 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2012 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2013 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2014 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2015 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2016 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2017 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2021 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2025 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2026 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2027 link. Closes: #346405
2028 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2030 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2031 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2032 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2033 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2034 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2035 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2036 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2040 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2047 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2053 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2056 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2060 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2063 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2068 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2072 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2073 installed. Closes: #342033
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2077 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2080 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2081 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2082 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2087 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2093 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2099 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2103 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2104 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2105 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2109 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2112 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2117 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2124 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2130 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2133 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2134 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2135 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2136 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2137 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2138 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2139 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2141 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2145 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2148 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2149 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2153 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2156 in standard man dirs.
2157 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2161 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2167 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2170 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2175 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2182 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2189 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2192 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2193 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2197 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2200 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2201 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2202 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2204 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2206 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2212 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2218 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2221 mode. Closes: #324161
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2225 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2228 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2229 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2230 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2231 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2236 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2239 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2240 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2241 is necesary for sanity.
2242 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2243 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2248 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2250 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2251 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2255 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2258 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2262 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2268 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2271 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2272 released, so use at your own risk.
2273 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2274 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2276 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2277 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2278 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2279 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2280 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2281 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2282 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2283 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2284 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2285 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2286 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2287 including twice per config file line now..
2288 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2289 and simplfy the rules file.
2290 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2291 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2292 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2294 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2295 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2299 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2302 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2306 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2309 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2313 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2316 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2320 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2323 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2324 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2325 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2326 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2327 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2328 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2332 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2335 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2336 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2337 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2342 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2345 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2346 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2351 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2354 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2355 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2356 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2361 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2364 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2365 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2366 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2370 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2376 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2383 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2386 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2387 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2388 unknown. Closes: #282924
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2392 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2399 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Spanish man page updates.
2402 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2407 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2413 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2416 * dh_desktop: reindent
2417 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2418 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2422 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2428 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2430 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2434 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2436 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2440 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2443 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2444 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2448 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2454 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2460 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2467 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2470 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2474 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2477 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2478 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2479 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2480 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2481 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2482 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2484 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2485 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2486 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2487 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2488 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2489 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2490 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2491 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2492 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2493 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2494 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2495 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2496 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2497 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2498 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2499 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2503 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2510 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2513 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2517 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2520 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2524 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2527 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2531 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2534 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2538 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2544 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2550 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2556 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2559 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2560 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2561 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2565 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2568 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2572 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2575 but occasionally right and necessary.
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2579 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2582 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2583 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2584 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2585 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2586 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2590 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2593 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2595 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2596 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2597 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2598 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2599 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2600 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2601 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2602 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2603 postinst scripts for udebs.
2604 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2608 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2611 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2613 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2614 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2618 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2624 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2631 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2638 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2641 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2645 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2648 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2652 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2655 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2658 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2659 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2663 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2669 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2672 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2676 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2679 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2680 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2681 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2683 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2685 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2686 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2687 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2691 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2694 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2699 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2702 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2703 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2704 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2709 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2715 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2721 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2724 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2725 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2726 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2727 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2728 associated -dbg packages.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2732 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2735 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2739 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2742 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2746 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2749 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2753 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2756 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2761 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2764 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2768 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2771 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2776 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2779 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2783 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2787 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2788 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2789 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2790 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2791 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2792 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2793 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2794 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2795 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2796 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2800 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2803 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2808 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2811 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2812 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2816 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2819 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2820 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2825 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2828 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2832 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2835 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2839 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2842 out section number. Closes: #204731
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2846 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2853 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2859 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2865 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2868 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2869 removal. Closes: #204286
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2873 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2876 renaming. Closes: #203548
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2880 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2883 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2884 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2888 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2894 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2900 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2906 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2909 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2910 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2911 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2915 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2918 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2919 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2923 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2929 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2936 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2939 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2944 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2947 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2951 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2954 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2956 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2957 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2961 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2964 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2969 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2972 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2976 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2982 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2984 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2988 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2991 it break hard links (see #188663).
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2995 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2998 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3002 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3008 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3012 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3013 debconf-mergetemplates
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3017 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3020 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3024 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3027 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3031 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3034 * Update debhelper(1).
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3038 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3041 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3042 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3043 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3044 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3045 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3049 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3052 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3053 the shell. Closes: #178524
3054 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3058 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3061 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3065 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3068 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3072 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3075 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3076 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3077 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3078 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3083 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3086 files from installation.
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3090 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3093 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3094 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3098 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3101 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3105 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3108 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3112 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3118 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3124 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3128 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3129 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3131 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3135 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3138 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3139 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3140 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3141 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3145 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3148 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3152 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3155 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3156 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3160 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3164 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3169 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3175 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3179 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3180 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3181 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3186 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3189 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3190 practice. Closes: #163303
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3194 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3200 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3207 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3210 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3212 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3213 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3214 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3215 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3216 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3220 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3223 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3228 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3234 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3241 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3244 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3249 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3255 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3261 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3267 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3274 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3277 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3278 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3279 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3280 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3285 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3291 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3298 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3301 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3302 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3306 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3309 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3310 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3311 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3312 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3313 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3317 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3320 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3322 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3327 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3330 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3334 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3337 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3338 right thing. Closes: #150644
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3342 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * Stupid, evil typo.
3345 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3349 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3356 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3359 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3360 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3365 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3371 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3374 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3378 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3381 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3382 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3387 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3390 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3394 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3400 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3403 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3404 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3408 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3414 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * Removing perl warning message.
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3420 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3423 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3424 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3425 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3426 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3427 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3428 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3429 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3430 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3434 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3440 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3447 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3450 debconf-mergetemplate.
3451 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3452 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3456 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3459 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3460 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3461 dh_install, which ...
3462 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3463 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3464 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3465 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3466 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3467 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3468 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3469 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3470 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3471 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3472 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3473 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3474 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3475 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3476 other minor changes.
3477 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3478 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3479 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3480 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3481 course there's -X ..)
3482 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3483 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3484 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3486 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3487 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3488 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3489 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3490 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3495 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3501 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3504 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3508 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3514 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3520 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3526 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3532 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3535 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3536 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3537 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3538 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3540 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3541 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3545 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3551 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3554 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3558 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3561 upset. Closes: #131322
3563 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3565 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3568 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3569 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3570 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3571 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3572 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3573 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3574 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3575 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3576 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3577 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3578 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3579 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3580 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3581 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3582 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3584 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3588 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3591 - Better indenting of generated code.
3592 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3596 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3600 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3601 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3602 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3603 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3604 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3605 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3606 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3610 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3613 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3617 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3619 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3620 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3621 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3622 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3623 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3624 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3625 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3626 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3627 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3628 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3629 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3630 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3631 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3632 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3633 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3634 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3639 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3645 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3648 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3649 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3653 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3656 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3657 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3661 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3667 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3670 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3671 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3672 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3673 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3674 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3679 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3685 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3687 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3688 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3692 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3694 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3695 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3700 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3706 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3709 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3713 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3719 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3723 Also some indentation fixes.
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3727 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3730 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3731 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3732 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3733 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3734 Closes: #106514, #85520
3736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3738 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3740 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3744 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3750 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3756 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3762 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3768 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3770 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3771 change it in debhelper v4..
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3775 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3781 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3784 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3788 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3791 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3795 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3797 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3801 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3804 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3805 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3806 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3807 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3808 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3809 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3810 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3811 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3812 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3813 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3814 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3815 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3819 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3822 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3826 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3828 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3833 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3835 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3836 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3837 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3838 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3839 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3840 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3841 program those options go to. So, for example,
3842 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3843 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3844 something complex. Closes: #89311
3845 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3849 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3852 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3853 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3854 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3858 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3860 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3861 through loop. Closes: #98598
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3865 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * Missing semi-colon.
3868 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3869 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3873 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3876 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3877 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3878 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3882 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3885 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3886 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3890 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3892 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3893 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3897 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3899 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3900 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3901 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3905 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3908 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3909 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3910 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3914 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3917 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3918 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3919 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3923 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3926 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3930 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3936 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3942 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3948 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3954 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3957 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3961 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3964 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3965 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3966 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3967 followed. Closes: #85483
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3971 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3973 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3974 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3975 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3979 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3982 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3983 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3984 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3985 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3986 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3987 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3988 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3989 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3990 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3991 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3992 Closes: #88464, #77743
3993 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3994 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3995 us to deal with that gracefully.
3996 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3998 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3999 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4000 a while, Closes: #51225
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4004 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4010 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4013 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4017 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4019 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4021 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4026 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4029 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4030 don't make packlist files.
4031 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4032 debhelper coding standards.
4033 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4034 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4038 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4041 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4045 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4048 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4049 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4050 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4051 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4052 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4053 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4054 but is mildly deprecated.
4055 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4056 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4057 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4058 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4059 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4060 switching to statoverrides..
4061 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4062 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4063 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4064 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4065 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4066 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4068 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4069 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4070 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4071 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4072 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4073 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4074 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4075 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4076 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4078 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4079 variable names, pod man pages).
4080 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4081 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4082 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4083 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4084 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4085 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4086 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4090 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4096 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4098 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4103 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4105 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4106 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4110 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4112 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4113 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4114 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4118 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4120 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4121 they were previously ignored.
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4125 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4127 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4128 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4132 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4134 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4135 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4136 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4140 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4142 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4146 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4148 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4149 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4153 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4155 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4156 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4157 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4158 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4159 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4160 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4161 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4162 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4163 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4164 it is an obsolete program.
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4168 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4170 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4174 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4178 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4180 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4184 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4186 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4188 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4190 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4194 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4200 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * typo: Closes, #78567
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4206 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4212 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4218 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4221 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4222 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4223 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4224 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4225 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4229 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4232 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4237 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4240 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4241 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4242 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4243 backwards-compatibility.
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4247 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4250 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4251 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4252 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4253 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4254 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4255 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4257 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4258 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4259 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4261 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4263 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4264 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4265 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4266 should now be raised to severity important..
4267 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4268 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4272 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4275 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4280 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4286 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4288 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4292 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4294 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4298 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4305 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4308 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4309 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4310 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4311 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4315 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4321 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4323 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4324 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4325 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4326 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4327 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4328 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4329 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4334 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4336 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4337 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4341 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4347 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4350 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4355 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4357 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4358 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4359 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4360 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4361 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4365 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4367 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4369 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4372 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4374 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4375 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4376 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4379 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4381 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4382 the TODO entry about it.
4384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4386 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4388 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4393 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4396 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4397 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4401 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4404 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4405 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4406 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4407 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4411 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4413 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4417 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4424 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4427 (this appears to be logal).
4429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4431 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4433 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4434 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4435 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4436 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4437 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4441 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4447 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4450 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4451 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4452 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4453 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4457 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4459 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4463 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4466 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4470 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4472 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4477 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4480 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4481 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4482 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4487 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4489 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4494 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4496 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4500 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4502 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4503 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4504 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4505 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4506 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4507 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4508 notice until v2 is complete.
4509 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4510 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4511 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4512 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4513 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4514 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4516 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4517 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4518 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4519 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4523 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4525 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4529 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4536 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4539 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4543 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4545 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4550 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4553 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4554 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4555 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4556 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4561 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4564 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4565 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4566 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4571 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4573 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4574 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4575 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4579 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4581 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4582 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4586 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4588 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4589 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4593 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4600 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4603 depend on the build and install targets.
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4607 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4610 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4614 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4621 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4627 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4633 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4636 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4637 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4638 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4639 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4640 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4641 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4643 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4644 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4645 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4646 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4647 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4648 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4649 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4653 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4659 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4665 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4668 right place. Closes: #55065
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4672 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4679 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4682 * Copyright date updates.
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4686 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4688 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4689 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4694 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4700 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4707 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4713 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4719 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4721 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4725 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4727 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4728 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4729 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4730 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4731 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4732 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4733 bits until all files have been registered.
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4737 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * dh_installmanpages:
4740 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4741 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4742 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4743 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4744 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4745 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4746 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4747 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4748 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4749 otherwise change the result at all.
4751 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4752 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4753 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4754 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4755 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4760 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4762 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4766 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4769 act on files that don't exist.
4770 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4771 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4772 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4774 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4775 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4776 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4777 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4781 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4783 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4787 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4793 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4795 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4796 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4800 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4803 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4805 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4806 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4807 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4811 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4814 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4815 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4816 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4817 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4818 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4819 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4820 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4822 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4824 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4828 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4830 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4835 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4841 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4843 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4847 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4850 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4854 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4860 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4866 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4868 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4869 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4870 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4871 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4872 I made some changes, though:
4873 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4874 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4875 that is a clear violation of policy.
4876 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4877 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4878 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4879 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4880 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4881 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4882 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4883 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4884 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4886 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4890 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4896 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4899 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4903 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4905 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4906 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4907 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4912 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4914 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4918 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4920 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4925 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4927 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4928 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4929 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4930 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4931 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4932 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4933 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4934 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4938 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4940 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4944 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4948 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4949 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4953 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4955 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4959 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4961 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4962 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4966 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4968 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4969 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4970 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4974 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4976 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4981 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4985 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4989 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4991 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4992 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4993 for the dependancies to be generated.
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4997 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5000 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5004 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5006 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5007 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5008 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5009 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5014 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5016 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5017 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5018 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5022 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5028 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5030 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5034 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5037 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5041 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5047 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5049 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5050 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5051 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5052 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5053 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5054 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5055 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5056 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5057 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5058 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5059 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5060 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5061 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5065 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5067 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5068 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5069 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5071 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5072 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5073 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5074 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5075 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5076 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5078 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5079 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5083 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5085 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5086 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5090 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5092 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5097 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5099 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5100 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5105 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5108 for building debhelper.
5109 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5113 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5115 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5120 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5122 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5123 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5127 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5130 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5131 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5132 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5133 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5134 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5135 it's always available.
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5139 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5142 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5143 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5144 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5148 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5150 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5151 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5152 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5156 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5162 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5164 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5165 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5169 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5175 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5177 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5178 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5179 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5180 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5184 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5187 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5192 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5194 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5195 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5196 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5198 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5199 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5203 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5209 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5215 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5217 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5218 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5222 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5224 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5225 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5226 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5228 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5232 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5234 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5235 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5236 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5237 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5241 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5243 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5244 things if CDPATH is set.
5246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5248 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5250 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5254 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5256 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5257 seems to make sense for the transition.
5259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5261 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5263 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5264 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5269 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5271 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5272 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5273 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5277 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5279 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5280 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5284 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5287 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5288 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5289 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5290 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5294 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5296 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5300 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5302 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5303 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5304 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5305 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5306 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5307 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5308 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5309 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5310 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5311 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5312 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5317 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5319 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5320 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5321 * README: mention doc/v2
5322 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5323 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5327 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5329 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5330 be using this script RSN.
5332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5334 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5336 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5337 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5338 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5339 more than 1 init script.
5341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5343 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5345 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5346 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5350 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5352 * Changed perl version detection.
5353 * Changed call to find.
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5357 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5359 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5360 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5362 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5367 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5369 * Really include dh_installpam.
5371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5373 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5375 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5376 * Wrote man page for same.
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5380 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5382 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5383 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5384 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5389 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5396 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5398 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5399 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5400 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5401 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5402 x bit was being set!
5404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5406 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5408 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5409 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5410 well. (Closes: 38900)
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5414 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5417 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5418 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5422 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5428 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5430 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5435 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5441 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5443 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5444 help from Julian Gilbey.
5445 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5446 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5447 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5448 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5449 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5450 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5451 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5456 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5458 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5462 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5469 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5475 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5477 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5481 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5483 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5484 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5488 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5490 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5491 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5495 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5497 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5498 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5502 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5508 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5510 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5511 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5515 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5517 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5521 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5523 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5527 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5529 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5530 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5531 may be deleted. (#35845)
5533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5535 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5537 * Various man page enhancements.
5538 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5543 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5545 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5546 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5547 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5551 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5553 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5554 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5555 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5556 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5558 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5559 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5564 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5566 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5570 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5572 * Another very minor typo fix.
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5576 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * Very minor typo fix.
5580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5582 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5584 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5585 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5586 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5590 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5592 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5596 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5598 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5599 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5600 variables properly (#34850).
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5604 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5610 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5612 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5613 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5614 (automatically generated by build process).
5616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5618 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5620 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5624 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5626 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5627 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5628 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5630 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5634 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5637 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5641 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5643 * README: minor typo fix.
5645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5647 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5649 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5650 leave it at that. :-)
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5654 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5656 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5660 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5662 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5666 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5668 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5669 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5670 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5671 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5675 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5677 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5678 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5682 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5684 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5685 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5689 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5691 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5692 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5693 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5694 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5695 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5699 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5701 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5702 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5703 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5704 Craig Small for spotting this.
5706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5708 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5710 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5711 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5712 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5716 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5718 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5722 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5724 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5725 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5729 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5731 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5732 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5733 working on the last version of debhelper.
5735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5737 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5739 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5740 being made. (#23255)
5742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5744 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5746 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5750 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5752 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5753 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5757 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5759 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5760 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5761 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5762 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5763 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5767 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5769 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5770 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5771 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5772 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5773 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5775 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5776 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5778 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5783 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5785 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5789 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5791 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5795 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5797 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5798 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5799 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5800 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5801 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5802 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5803 suidregister actually supports it.
5804 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5805 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5809 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5811 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5816 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5818 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5819 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5820 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5821 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5822 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5823 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5824 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5825 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5829 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5831 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5832 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5836 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5838 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5839 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5840 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5841 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5842 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5846 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5848 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5849 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5851 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5852 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5853 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5854 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5855 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5856 effect, either. (#30118)
5858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5860 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5862 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5866 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5868 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5869 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5870 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5874 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5876 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5880 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5882 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5883 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5884 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5885 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5886 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5890 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5892 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5893 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5894 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5898 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5900 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5904 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5906 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5907 packages, painlessly.
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5911 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5917 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5919 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5923 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5925 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5929 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5931 * The perl conversion is complete.
5933 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5935 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5936 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5937 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5942 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5944 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5945 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5946 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5947 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5951 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5953 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5954 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5956 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5958 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5959 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5963 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5965 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5966 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5967 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5971 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5973 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5977 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5979 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5980 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5981 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5982 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5983 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5984 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5988 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5990 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5991 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5992 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5993 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5994 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5998 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6000 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6001 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6005 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6007 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6008 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6009 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6010 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6011 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6012 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6013 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6014 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6015 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6019 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6021 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6025 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6027 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6028 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6029 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6030 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6035 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6037 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6038 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6042 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6044 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6045 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6049 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6051 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6052 sections of shared libraries.
6053 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6054 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6055 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6056 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6057 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6058 things you don't want them to.
6059 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6060 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6064 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6066 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6067 shared libraries. (#26414)
6069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6071 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6073 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6074 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6075 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6076 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6080 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6082 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6084 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6086 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6087 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6088 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6089 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6090 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6094 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6096 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6097 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6101 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6103 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6104 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6105 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6110 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6113 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6117 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6119 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6120 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6121 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6122 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6123 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6124 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6126 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6127 remove debian/files properly.
6128 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6129 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6130 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6131 * Removed bogus menu file.
6133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6135 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6137 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6138 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6142 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6144 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6145 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6146 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6147 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6148 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6149 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6150 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6154 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6156 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6157 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6158 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6159 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6160 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6164 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6166 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6171 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6173 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6174 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6175 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6177 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6178 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6179 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6180 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6181 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6182 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6186 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6188 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6189 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6190 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6191 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6192 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6193 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6194 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6195 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6196 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6197 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6198 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6199 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6200 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6201 passed any switches.
6202 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6206 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6208 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6209 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6210 at all for a long while.
6211 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6212 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6213 large chunks in the process.
6214 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6215 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6216 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6221 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6223 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6224 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6226 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6231 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6233 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6234 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6235 that don't always have the same files in them.
6236 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6237 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6238 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6242 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6244 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6246 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6247 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6248 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6249 updating 27 man pages.
6250 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6251 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6252 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6253 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6254 programs act on. (#25247)
6256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6258 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6262 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6263 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6264 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6265 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6266 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6267 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6272 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6274 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6279 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6281 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6286 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6288 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6289 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6293 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6295 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6299 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6301 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6302 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6303 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6304 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6305 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6306 package by accident.
6307 * Is version 1.0 next?
6309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6311 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6313 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6314 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6315 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6319 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6321 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6322 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6323 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6324 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6325 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6326 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6328 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6333 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6335 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6336 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6337 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6341 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6343 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6344 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6348 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6350 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6351 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6352 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6357 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6359 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6363 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6365 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6366 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6367 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6372 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6374 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6378 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6380 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6381 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6382 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6383 past week. Thanks, guys!
6385 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6386 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6387 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6388 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6389 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6390 would do in the same situation.
6391 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6392 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6394 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6396 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6397 permissions changed.
6398 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6399 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6400 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6401 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6402 files are treated identically.
6403 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6404 * Minor man page fixes.
6405 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6406 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6407 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6411 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6413 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6414 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6415 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6416 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6417 use -X multiple times, too.
6418 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6419 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6423 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6425 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6426 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6427 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6431 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6433 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6434 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6438 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6440 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6441 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6442 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6443 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6444 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6445 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6446 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6447 shape if you're starting a new package.
6449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6451 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6453 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6454 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6458 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6460 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6461 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6462 because of missing symlinks.
6464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6466 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6468 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6472 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6474 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6475 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6476 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6477 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6478 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6479 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6481 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6482 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6486 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6488 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6489 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6490 to be changed after the fact :-)
6491 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6495 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6497 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6498 no version string after the -V.
6500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6502 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6504 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6505 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6510 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6512 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6513 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6517 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6519 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6520 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6521 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6522 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6523 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6524 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6525 I always welcome corrections!
6527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6529 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6531 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6535 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6537 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6538 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6539 * Documented this new switch.
6541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6543 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6545 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6546 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6547 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6548 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6549 no packages use the old behavior.
6551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6553 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6555 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6556 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6557 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6561 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6563 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6564 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6568 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6570 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6574 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6576 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6577 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6581 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6583 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6584 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6585 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6586 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6590 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6592 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6596 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6598 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6599 into the source package by accident.
6601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6603 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6605 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6606 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6607 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6608 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6609 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6610 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6611 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6616 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6618 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6620 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6621 inspired to implement some of it.
6622 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6626 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6628 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6629 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6633 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6635 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6636 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6637 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6641 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6643 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6644 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6645 have done.) (#17598)
6647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6649 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6651 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6655 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6657 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6661 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6663 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6664 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6668 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6670 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6671 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6672 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6676 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6678 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6679 argument processor in perl.
6680 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6681 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6682 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6683 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6687 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6689 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6690 type directories. (#16933)
6691 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6692 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6693 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6694 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6695 are supported. (#16935)
6696 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6701 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6703 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6704 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6708 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6710 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6712 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6713 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6714 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6715 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6716 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6717 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6721 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6723 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6724 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6725 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6727 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6728 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6729 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6730 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6731 a given package, or -i or -a.
6732 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6733 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6734 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6735 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6736 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6737 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6738 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6739 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6740 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6742 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6743 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6744 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6748 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6750 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6751 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6752 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6757 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6759 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6760 does not have a section.
6762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6764 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6766 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6767 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6768 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6769 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6773 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6775 * Fixed typo #16215.
6777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6779 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6781 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6782 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6783 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6784 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6785 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6786 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6791 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6793 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6794 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6795 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6796 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6801 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6803 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6807 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6809 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6813 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6815 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6816 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6817 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6818 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6819 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6820 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6821 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6825 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6827 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6831 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6833 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6834 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6838 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6840 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6841 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6842 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6843 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6847 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6849 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6850 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6854 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6856 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6860 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6862 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6863 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6867 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6869 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6870 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6874 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6876 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6880 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6882 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6883 postinst, postrm, etc.
6885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6887 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6889 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6893 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6895 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6896 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6897 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6898 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6899 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6900 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6904 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6906 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6907 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6908 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6912 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6914 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6915 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6919 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6921 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6922 installing package files into.
6923 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6928 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6930 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6932 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6936 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6938 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6942 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6944 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6945 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6949 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6951 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6952 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6953 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6954 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6955 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6959 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6961 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6962 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6963 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6964 multiple binary packages.
6965 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6966 should rebuild them with this version.
6967 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6971 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6973 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6974 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6978 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6980 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6981 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6985 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6987 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6988 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6989 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6990 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6991 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6992 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6993 debian/README.debian.
6994 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6995 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6996 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6997 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6998 in a few situations.)
7000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7002 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7004 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7008 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7010 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7014 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7016 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7017 * Fixed several man pages.
7019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7021 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7023 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7024 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7025 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7029 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7031 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7032 is ready for general use.
7033 * Added man pages for all commands.
7034 * Multiple binary package support.
7035 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7036 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7037 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7039 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7040 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7041 auto-installed as parameters.
7042 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7044 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7047 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7048 the package build directory it is to act on.
7049 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7050 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7051 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7055 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7057 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7058 ready to replace debstd.
7060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400