1 debhelper (9.20120830) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installcatalogs: Adjust catalog conffile conversion to avoid
4 dpkg conffile prompt when upgrading from a removed package.
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:04:10 -0400
9 debhelper (9.20120609) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
11 * dh_shlibdeps: Warn if -V flag is passed, to avoid it accidentially being
12 used here rather than in dh_makeshlibs. Closes: #680339
13 * dh_lintian: Source overrides doc improvement. Closes: #683941
14 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #685538
15 * Updated French man page translation. Closes: #685560
16 * dh_installmime: No longer makes maintainer scripts run update-mime and
17 update-mime-database, that is now handled by triggers. Closes: #684689
18 Thanks, Charles Plessy
19 * python distutils buildsystem: Propigate failure of pyversions.
20 Closes: #683551 Thanks, Clint Byrum
21 * python distutils buildsystem: When checking if a version of python is
22 installed, don't trust the presense of the executable, as
23 a python2.X-minimal package may provide it while not having
24 distutils installed. Closes: #683557
25 * dh_icons: Improve documentation. Closes: #684895
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:51:07 -0600
29 debhelper (9.20120608) unstable; urgency=low
31 * dh: When there's an -indep override target without -arch, or vice versa,
32 avoid acting on packages covered by the override target when running
33 the command for packages not covered by it. Closes: #676462
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:15:48 -0400
37 debhelper (9.20120528) unstable; urgency=low
39 * dh_installcatalogs: Turn /etc/sgml/$package.cat into conffiles
40 and introduce dependency on trigger-based sgml-base. Closes: #477751
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 May 2012 13:40:26 -0400
45 debhelper (9.20120523) unstable; urgency=low
47 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #673629 Thanks, Omar Campagne
48 * Set Multi-Arch: foreign. Closes: #674193
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 May 2012 14:55:48 -0400
52 debhelper (9.20120518) unstable; urgency=low
54 * Fix versioned dependency on dpkg for xz options. Closes: #672895
55 * dh_link: Doc improvement. Closes: #672988
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 May 2012 11:05:03 -0400
59 debhelper (9.20120513) unstable; urgency=low
61 * Improve -v logging. Closes: #672448
62 * dh_builddeb: Build udebs with xz compression, level 1, extreme strategy.
63 This has been chosen to not need any more memory or cpu when uncompressing,
64 while yeilding the best compressions for udebs. Thanks, Philipp Kern.
65 * Depend on a new enough dpkg for above features. Backporters will need
66 to revert these changes.
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 May 2012 13:09:42 -0400
70 debhelper (9.20120509) unstable; urgency=low
72 * dh_installman: Recognize sections from mdoc .Dt entries. Closes: #670210
74 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #671598
75 * dh_install: Reorder documentation for clarity. Closes: #672109
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 May 2012 12:59:15 -0400
79 debhelper (9.20120419) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Fix compat level checking for cmake. Closes: #669181
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:35 -0400
85 debhelper (9.20120418) unstable; urgency=low
87 * cmake: Only pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS in v9.
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:39 -0400
91 debhelper (9.20120417) unstable; urgency=low
93 * cmake: Pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS. Closes: #668813
94 Thanks, Simon Ruderich for the patch and for verifying no affected
95 package is broken by this change.
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:29 -0400
99 debhelper (9.20120410) unstable; urgency=low
102 * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891
103 * Conflict with too old automake for AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. Closes: #666901
104 * dh_md5sums: Don't skip DEBIAN directories other than the control files
108 * dh_installinit: rework upstart handling to comply with new policy
109 proposal; packages will ship both an init script and an upstart job,
110 instead of just an upstart job and a symlink to a compat wrapper.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:51:15 -0400
115 debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
118 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
119 Added to interface documentation.
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400
124 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
130 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
132 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
133 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
134 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
135 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
137 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
138 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
139 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
140 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
141 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
146 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
148 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
149 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
150 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
151 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
152 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
153 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
154 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
158 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
160 * Typo. Closes: #653006
161 * Typo. Closes: #653339
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
165 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
167 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
168 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
169 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
170 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
171 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
172 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
176 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
178 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
179 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
180 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
181 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
182 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
183 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
184 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
185 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
189 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
191 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
195 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
197 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
198 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
199 may need to disable this.
200 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
201 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
202 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
203 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
207 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
210 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
211 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
215 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
217 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
218 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
219 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
221 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
222 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
223 to dh. Closes: #643069
224 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
225 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
229 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
231 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
232 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
233 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
234 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
235 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
237 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
238 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
239 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
241 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
242 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
243 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
244 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
245 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
246 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
247 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
248 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
249 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
250 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
251 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
252 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
253 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
254 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
255 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
259 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
261 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
266 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
269 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
271 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
277 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
280 Use override targets instead.
281 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
282 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
283 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
284 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
285 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
286 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
287 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
288 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
289 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
290 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
295 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
297 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
298 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
302 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
304 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
308 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
310 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
311 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
312 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
313 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
314 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
315 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
316 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
320 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
322 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
323 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
324 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
325 the targets. Closes: #629139
326 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
327 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
328 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
329 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
330 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
331 are already set to other values will not be changed.
333 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
334 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
335 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
336 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
337 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
342 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
348 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
351 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
352 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
356 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
359 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
360 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
361 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
362 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
363 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
364 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
365 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
370 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
374 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
375 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
377 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
378 changes may be added to that mode.
379 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
380 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
381 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
382 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
383 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
384 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
385 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
386 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
387 * Removed old example rules files.
388 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
392 * update french translation.
393 * Fix french misspelling.
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
397 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
400 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
404 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
406 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
407 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
408 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
409 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
410 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
411 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
412 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
413 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
417 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
420 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
421 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
422 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
423 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
424 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
425 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
427 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
428 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
429 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
430 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
431 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
432 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
433 (Thanks, David Prévot)
434 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
435 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
436 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
437 target fails. Closes: #601037
438 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
440 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
441 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
442 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
443 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
444 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
446 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
447 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
449 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
450 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
451 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
453 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
455 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
458 * update french translation.
459 * Fix french misspelling.
460 * French translation update after massive man page typography
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
464 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
467 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
470 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
474 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
476 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
480 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
482 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
483 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
484 introduced by the fix to #527990.
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
488 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
490 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
491 changes are planned for that mode.
492 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
493 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
494 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
495 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
496 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
497 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
498 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
499 (genesis) still uses them.
500 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
501 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
502 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
503 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
504 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
505 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
506 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
507 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
508 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
509 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
510 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
511 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
512 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
513 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
514 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
515 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
516 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
517 commands. (See #570039)
518 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
520 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
525 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
527 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
529 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
530 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
531 in control file or debhelper config files.
532 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
536 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
538 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
539 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
540 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
544 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
546 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
547 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
551 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
553 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
554 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
555 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
559 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
561 * Updated French translation.
562 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
563 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
564 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
565 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
567 * Typo. Closes: #571968
568 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
569 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
570 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
571 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
572 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
573 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
574 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
575 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
576 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
578 * dh: Improve documentation.
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
582 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
584 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
585 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
586 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
590 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
592 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
593 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
597 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
600 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
604 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
606 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
607 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
608 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
609 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
610 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
611 options that they do not support.
612 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
613 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
614 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
615 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
616 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
617 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
622 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
626 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
627 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
628 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
629 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
630 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
631 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
632 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
633 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
634 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
638 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
640 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
641 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
642 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
643 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
644 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
648 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
650 * Typo. Closes: #558654
651 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
652 installed. Closes: #558782
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
656 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
658 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
659 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
660 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
661 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
662 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
663 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
667 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
669 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
670 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
671 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
672 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
676 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
679 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
680 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
684 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
686 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
690 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
692 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
693 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
694 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
695 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
696 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
697 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
698 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
699 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
700 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
701 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
702 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
703 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
704 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
705 time soon.) Closes: #554509
706 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
708 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
709 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
710 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
711 document id. Closes: #555677
712 * Typo. Closes: #555659
713 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
714 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
715 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
716 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
718 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
719 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
720 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
725 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
728 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
729 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
730 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
731 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
732 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
733 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
734 translation (#494300 part 2)
737 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
739 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
740 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
741 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
742 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
743 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
747 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
749 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
750 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
751 (It was only run once due to logging.)
752 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
753 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
754 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
755 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
756 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
757 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
758 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
759 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
760 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
761 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
765 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
768 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
769 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
772 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
773 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
777 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
779 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
780 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
781 flag with arch all/any packages.
782 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
783 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
784 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
785 situation. Closes: #540794
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
789 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
791 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
793 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
794 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
795 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
796 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
797 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
800 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
801 the default. Closes: #538201
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
806 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
810 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
811 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
812 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
813 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
814 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
816 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
817 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
818 * Above Closes: #491117
819 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
824 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
830 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
831 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
832 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
836 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
839 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
840 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
841 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
842 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
843 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
848 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
851 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
852 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
856 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
858 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
862 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
864 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
865 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
867 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
868 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
869 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
873 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
875 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
876 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
880 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
882 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
886 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
888 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
889 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
890 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
895 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
897 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
901 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
904 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
905 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
906 created by using `python' first during build and install.
908 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
913 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
915 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
919 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
921 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
922 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
926 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
928 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
932 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
934 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
938 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
940 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
941 contributed by Modestas Vainius
942 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
943 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
944 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
945 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
946 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
947 that support it. Closes: #480577
948 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
949 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
950 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
952 - Adds support for cmake.
953 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
954 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
956 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
958 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
959 that use them. The options are:
960 --sourcedir, --destdir
961 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
962 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
963 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
964 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
965 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
969 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
971 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
975 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
978 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
979 default. Closes: #537140
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
983 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
986 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
987 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
991 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
993 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
994 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
998 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
1001 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
1005 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
1008 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
1010 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
1011 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
1012 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
1016 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
1019 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
1020 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
1021 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
1025 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
1028 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
1029 warning or deprecation message.
1030 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
1031 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
1032 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
1033 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
1034 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
1035 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
1036 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
1037 Closes: #534639, #357434
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
1041 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
1047 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
1050 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
1051 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
1052 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
1053 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
1055 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
1056 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
1057 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
1061 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
1067 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
1074 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
1077 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
1081 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
1085 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
1086 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
1088 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
1089 file support. Closes: #494914
1090 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
1094 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
1097 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
1098 parameters. Closes: #527256
1099 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
1100 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
1101 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
1105 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
1108 (Patch from #459548)
1109 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
1110 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
1111 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1115 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1118 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1119 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1120 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1124 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1127 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1128 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1130 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1131 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1132 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1136 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1140 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1144 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1147 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1148 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1149 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1150 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1155 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1161 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1164 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1165 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1166 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1167 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1168 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1170 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1171 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1172 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1173 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1174 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1175 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1179 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1182 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1183 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1184 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1185 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1186 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1188 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1192 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1194 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1198 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1200 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1201 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1202 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1203 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1204 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1205 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1206 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1207 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1208 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1209 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1210 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1214 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1216 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1217 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1219 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1220 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1221 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1222 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1224 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1225 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1229 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1231 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1232 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1233 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1234 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1235 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1236 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1237 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1239 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1240 that uses them. Affected options are:
1241 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1242 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1243 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1244 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1245 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1246 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1247 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1248 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1249 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1250 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1251 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1252 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1256 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1263 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1269 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1272 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1274 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1275 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1276 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1277 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1278 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1279 than the old method.
1280 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1282 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1283 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1284 rules (see bug #509756).
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1288 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1294 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1295 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1296 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1297 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1301 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1304 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1305 empty files. Closes: #490937
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1309 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1315 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1322 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1325 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1326 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1327 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1328 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1333 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1335 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1336 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1337 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1338 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1342 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1345 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1346 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1347 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1348 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1349 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1353 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1360 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1363 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1364 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1365 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1366 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1367 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1368 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1369 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1370 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1371 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1375 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1378 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1379 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1380 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1381 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1383 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1384 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1385 breaking backwards compatibility.
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1389 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1392 message in perl 5.10.
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1396 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1402 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1405 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1409 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1412 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1416 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1419 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1420 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1421 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1422 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1423 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1424 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1425 logging by dh_listpackages.
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1429 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1432 run and there are no packages of that type.
1433 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1434 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1435 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1436 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1438 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1439 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1443 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1446 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1447 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1451 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1454 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1455 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1457 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1458 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1459 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1460 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1461 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1462 planned but not yet implemented.)
1463 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1464 if the Makefile has such a target.
1465 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1466 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1467 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1468 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1469 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1470 but not yet implemented.)
1471 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1472 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1473 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1474 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1475 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1477 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1479 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1480 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1482 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1483 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1484 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1489 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1492 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1493 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1497 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1499 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1500 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1501 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1505 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1511 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1517 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1520 just those installed by the program.
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1524 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1527 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1528 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1532 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1535 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1536 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1537 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1538 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1542 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1545 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1546 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1550 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1553 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1554 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1558 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1561 with policy. Closes: #461392
1562 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1563 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1564 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1565 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1566 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1570 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1573 Closes: #460340, #460351
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1577 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1580 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1581 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1582 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1583 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1587 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1590 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1591 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1592 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1593 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1594 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1595 package build directory won't work.
1596 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1597 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1598 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1599 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1600 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1601 mode. Closes: #459426
1602 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1607 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1610 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1614 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1618 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1619 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1620 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1621 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1622 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1623 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1627 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1630 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1631 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1632 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1633 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1637 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1640 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1641 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1642 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1643 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1644 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1648 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1651 debian/package.triggers files.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1655 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1658 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1662 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1665 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1666 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1667 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1668 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1673 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1676 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1680 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1683 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1684 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1686 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1691 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1695 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1696 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1697 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1701 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1708 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1715 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1718 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1720 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1721 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1722 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1724 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1725 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1726 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1730 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1733 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1734 * Update urls to web page.
1735 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1736 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1737 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1738 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1742 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1745 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1746 - typo in alternatives call
1747 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1749 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1750 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1754 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1757 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1762 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1768 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1774 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1777 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1779 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1780 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1781 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1782 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1783 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1784 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1785 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1786 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1787 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1788 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1789 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1793 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1796 package install. Closes: #415717
1797 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1798 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1799 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1800 script and then remove the python files.
1801 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1802 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1803 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1804 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1805 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1806 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1807 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1808 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1809 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1810 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1811 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1812 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1813 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1817 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * Correct typo in french translation
1823 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1824 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1826 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1828 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1829 Closes: #406921, #381940
1830 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1832 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1833 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1834 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1835 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1836 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1837 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1838 specified). Closes: #381851
1839 * Misc minor changes.
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1843 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1850 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1851 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1855 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1861 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1862 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1865 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1866 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1868 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1869 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1870 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1871 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1875 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1878 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1881 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1885 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1891 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1897 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1898 a difficult situation.
1899 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1900 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1901 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1902 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1903 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1904 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1905 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1906 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1907 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1908 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1912 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * Non-maintainer upload.
1915 * Update of dh_python
1916 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1917 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1919 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1920 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1921 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1922 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1923 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1925 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1927 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * Non-maintainer upload.
1930 * Update of dh_python
1931 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1932 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1933 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1934 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1935 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1936 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1937 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1938 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1939 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1940 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1942 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1943 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1944 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1945 the not too-distant future).
1946 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1947 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1948 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1949 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1950 thus made the build fail.
1952 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1954 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * Non-maintainer upload.
1957 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1959 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1961 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1964 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1965 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1966 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1967 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1968 package. Closes: #301424
1969 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1970 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1971 fonts). Closes: #372686
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1975 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1981 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1982 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1983 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1984 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1985 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1986 above, but already depends on that.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1990 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1993 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1994 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1995 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1996 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1997 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
2001 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
2007 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
2013 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
2014 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
2018 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
2021 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
2025 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
2029 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
2030 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
2031 new version (0.24.1).
2032 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
2033 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
2036 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
2037 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
2038 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
2039 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
2040 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
2041 new directory on their own.
2042 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
2043 * Fix broken directory removal code.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
2047 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
2050 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
2051 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
2052 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
2053 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
2057 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
2060 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
2061 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
2062 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
2063 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
2064 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
2068 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
2074 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Typo. Closes: #358904
2078 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
2079 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
2083 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2084 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
2088 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
2090 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
2091 || exit 0 instead of the intended
2093 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
2094 ignored. Closes: #337664
2096 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
2101 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
2107 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
2112 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
2113 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2114 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2115 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2116 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2117 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2118 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2122 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2125 version. Closes: #350607
2126 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2127 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2128 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2129 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2133 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2136 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2137 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2138 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2142 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2149 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2155 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2158 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2162 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2165 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2166 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2167 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2168 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2169 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2170 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2174 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2177 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2178 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2183 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2186 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2190 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2193 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2197 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2200 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2201 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2202 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2203 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2204 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2205 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2209 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2213 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2214 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2215 link. Closes: #346405
2216 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2218 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2219 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2220 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2221 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2222 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2223 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2224 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2228 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2235 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2241 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2244 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2248 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2251 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2256 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2260 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2261 installed. Closes: #342033
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2265 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2268 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2269 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2270 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2275 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2281 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2287 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2291 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2292 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2293 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2297 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2300 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2305 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2312 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2318 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2321 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2322 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2323 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2324 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2325 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2326 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2327 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2329 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2333 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2336 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2337 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2341 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2344 in standard man dirs.
2345 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2349 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2355 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2358 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2363 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2370 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2377 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2380 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2381 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2385 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2388 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2389 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2390 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2392 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2394 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2400 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2406 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2409 mode. Closes: #324161
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2413 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2416 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2417 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2418 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2419 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2424 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2427 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2428 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2429 is necesary for sanity.
2430 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2431 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2436 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2438 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2439 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2443 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2446 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2450 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2456 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2459 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2460 released, so use at your own risk.
2461 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2462 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2464 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2465 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2466 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2467 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2468 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2469 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2470 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2471 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2472 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2473 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2474 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2475 including twice per config file line now..
2476 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2477 and simplfy the rules file.
2478 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2479 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2480 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2482 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2483 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2487 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2490 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2494 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2497 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2501 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2504 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2508 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2511 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2512 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2513 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2514 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2515 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2516 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2520 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2523 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2524 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2525 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2530 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2533 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2534 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2539 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2542 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2543 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2544 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2549 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2552 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2553 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2554 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2558 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2564 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2571 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2574 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2575 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2576 unknown. Closes: #282924
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2580 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2587 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * Spanish man page updates.
2590 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2595 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2601 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2604 * dh_desktop: reindent
2605 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2606 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2610 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2616 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2618 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2622 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2624 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2628 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2631 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2632 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2636 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2642 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2648 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2655 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2658 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2662 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2665 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2666 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2667 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2668 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2669 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2670 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2672 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2673 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2674 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2675 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2676 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2677 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2678 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2679 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2680 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2681 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2682 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2683 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2684 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2685 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2686 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2687 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2691 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2698 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2701 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2705 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2708 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2712 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2715 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2719 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2722 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2726 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2732 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2738 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2744 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2747 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2748 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2749 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2753 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2756 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2760 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2763 but occasionally right and necessary.
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2767 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2770 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2771 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2772 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2773 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2774 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2778 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2781 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2783 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2784 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2785 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2786 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2787 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2788 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2789 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2790 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2791 postinst scripts for udebs.
2792 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2796 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2799 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2801 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2802 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2806 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2812 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2819 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2826 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2829 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2833 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2836 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2840 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2843 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2846 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2847 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2851 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2857 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2860 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2864 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2867 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2868 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2869 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2871 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2873 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2874 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2875 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2879 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2882 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2887 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2890 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2891 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2892 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2897 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2903 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2909 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2912 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2913 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2914 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2915 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2916 associated -dbg packages.
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2920 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2923 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2927 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2930 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2934 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2937 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2941 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2944 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2949 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2952 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2956 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2959 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2964 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2967 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2971 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2975 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2976 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2977 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2978 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2979 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2980 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2981 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2982 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2983 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2984 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2988 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2991 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2996 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2999 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
3000 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
3004 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
3007 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
3008 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
3013 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
3016 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
3020 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
3023 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
3027 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
3030 out section number. Closes: #204731
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
3034 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
3041 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
3047 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
3053 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * Typo, Closes: #203907
3056 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
3057 removal. Closes: #204286
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
3061 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
3064 renaming. Closes: #203548
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
3068 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
3071 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
3072 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
3076 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
3082 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
3088 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
3094 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
3097 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
3098 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
3099 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
3103 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
3106 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
3107 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
3111 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3117 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3124 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3127 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3132 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3135 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3139 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3142 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3144 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3145 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3149 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3152 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3157 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3160 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3164 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3170 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3172 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3176 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3179 it break hard links (see #188663).
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3183 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3186 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3190 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3196 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3200 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3201 debconf-mergetemplates
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3205 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3208 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3212 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3215 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3219 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3222 * Update debhelper(1).
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3226 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3229 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3230 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3231 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3232 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3233 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3237 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3240 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3241 the shell. Closes: #178524
3242 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3246 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3249 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3253 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3256 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3260 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3263 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3264 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3265 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3266 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3271 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3274 files from installation.
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3278 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3281 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3282 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3286 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3289 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3293 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3296 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3300 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3306 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3312 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3316 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3317 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3319 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3323 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3326 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3327 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3328 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3329 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3333 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3336 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3340 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3343 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3344 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3348 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3352 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3357 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3363 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3367 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3368 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3369 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3374 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3377 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3378 practice. Closes: #163303
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3382 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3388 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3395 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3398 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3400 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3401 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3402 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3403 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3404 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3408 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3411 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3416 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3422 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3429 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3432 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3437 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3443 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3449 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3455 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3462 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3465 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3466 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3467 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3468 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3473 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3479 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3486 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3489 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3490 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3494 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3497 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3498 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3499 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3500 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3501 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3505 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3508 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3510 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3515 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3518 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3522 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3525 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3526 right thing. Closes: #150644
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3530 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * Stupid, evil typo.
3533 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3537 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3544 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3547 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3548 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3553 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3559 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3562 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3566 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3569 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3570 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3575 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3578 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3582 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3588 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3591 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3592 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3596 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3602 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * Removing perl warning message.
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3608 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3611 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3612 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3613 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3614 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3615 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3616 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3617 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3618 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3622 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3628 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3635 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3638 debconf-mergetemplate.
3639 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3640 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3644 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3647 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3648 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3649 dh_install, which ...
3650 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3651 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3652 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3653 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3654 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3655 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3656 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3657 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3658 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3659 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3660 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3661 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3662 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3663 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3664 other minor changes.
3665 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3666 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3667 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3668 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3669 course there's -X ..)
3670 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3671 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3672 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3674 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3675 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3676 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3677 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3678 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3683 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3689 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3692 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3696 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3702 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3708 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3714 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3720 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3723 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3724 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3725 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3726 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3728 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3729 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3733 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3739 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3741 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3742 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3746 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3749 upset. Closes: #131322
3751 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3753 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3756 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3757 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3758 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3759 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3760 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3761 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3762 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3763 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3764 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3765 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3766 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3767 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3768 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3769 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3770 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3772 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3776 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3779 - Better indenting of generated code.
3780 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3784 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3788 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3789 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3790 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3791 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3792 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3793 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3794 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3798 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3800 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3801 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3805 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3808 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3809 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3810 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3811 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3812 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3813 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3814 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3815 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3816 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3817 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3818 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3819 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3820 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3821 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3822 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3827 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3833 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3835 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3836 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3837 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3841 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3843 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3844 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3845 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3849 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3855 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3858 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3859 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3860 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3861 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3862 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3867 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3873 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3876 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3880 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3883 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3888 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3894 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3897 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3901 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3907 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3911 Also some indentation fixes.
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3915 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3918 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3919 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3920 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3921 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3922 Closes: #106514, #85520
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3926 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3932 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3938 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3944 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3950 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3956 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3959 change it in debhelper v4..
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3963 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3969 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3972 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3976 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3979 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3983 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3985 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3989 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3992 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3993 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3994 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3995 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3996 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3997 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3998 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3999 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
4000 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
4001 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
4002 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
4003 prefixed with ".debhelper")
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
4007 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
4010 look just like shared libs, but are not.
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
4014 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
4019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
4021 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4023 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
4024 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
4025 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
4026 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
4027 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
4028 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
4029 program those options go to. So, for example,
4030 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
4031 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
4032 something complex. Closes: #89311
4033 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
4037 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
4040 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
4041 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
4042 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
4046 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
4049 through loop. Closes: #98598
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
4053 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * Missing semi-colon.
4056 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
4057 this (dh_* should be called, really).
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
4061 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
4064 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
4065 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
4066 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
4070 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
4073 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
4074 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
4078 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
4081 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
4085 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
4088 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
4089 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
4093 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
4096 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
4097 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
4098 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
4102 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
4105 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
4106 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
4107 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
4109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
4111 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4113 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4114 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4118 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4120 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4124 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4130 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4136 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4142 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4144 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4145 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4149 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4152 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4153 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4154 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4155 followed. Closes: #85483
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4159 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4161 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4162 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4163 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4167 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4170 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4171 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4172 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4173 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4174 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4175 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4176 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4177 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4178 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4179 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4180 Closes: #88464, #77743
4181 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4182 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4183 us to deal with that gracefully.
4184 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4186 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4187 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4188 a while, Closes: #51225
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4192 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4198 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4201 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4205 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4207 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4209 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4214 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4216 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4217 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4218 don't make packlist files.
4219 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4220 debhelper coding standards.
4221 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4222 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4226 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4229 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4233 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4235 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4236 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4237 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4238 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4239 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4240 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4241 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4242 but is mildly deprecated.
4243 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4244 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4245 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4246 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4247 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4248 switching to statoverrides..
4249 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4250 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4251 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4252 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4253 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4254 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4256 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4257 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4258 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4259 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4260 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4261 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4262 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4263 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4264 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4266 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4267 variable names, pod man pages).
4268 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4269 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4270 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4271 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4272 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4273 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4274 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4278 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4284 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4291 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4294 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4298 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4300 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4301 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4302 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4306 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4308 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4309 they were previously ignored.
4311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4313 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4315 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4316 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4320 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4322 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4323 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4324 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4328 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4330 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4334 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4336 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4337 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4341 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4343 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4344 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4345 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4346 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4347 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4348 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4349 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4350 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4351 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4352 it is an obsolete program.
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4356 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4358 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4362 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4366 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4368 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4370 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4372 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4374 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4376 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4378 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4382 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4388 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4390 * typo: Closes, #78567
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4394 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4400 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4406 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4409 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4410 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4411 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4412 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4413 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4417 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4420 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4425 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4428 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4429 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4430 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4431 backwards-compatibility.
4433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4435 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4437 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4438 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4439 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4440 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4441 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4442 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4443 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4445 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4446 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4447 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4449 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4451 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4452 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4453 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4454 should now be raised to severity important..
4455 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4456 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4460 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4463 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4468 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4474 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4480 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4486 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4488 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4493 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4495 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4496 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4497 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4498 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4499 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4503 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4509 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4512 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4513 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4514 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4515 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4516 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4517 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4522 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4524 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4525 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4529 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4535 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4538 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4543 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4545 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4546 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4547 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4548 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4549 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4553 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4557 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4560 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4563 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4564 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4567 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4569 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4570 the TODO entry about it.
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4574 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4581 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4584 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4585 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4589 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4592 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4593 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4594 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4595 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4599 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4605 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4607 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4612 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4614 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4615 (this appears to be logal).
4617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4619 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4621 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4622 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4623 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4624 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4625 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4629 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4635 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4638 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4639 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4640 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4641 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4645 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4647 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4651 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4653 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4654 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4658 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4660 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4665 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4668 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4669 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4670 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4675 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4677 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4682 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4688 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4691 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4692 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4693 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4694 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4695 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4696 notice until v2 is complete.
4697 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
4698 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4699 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4700 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4701 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4702 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4704 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4705 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4706 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4707 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4711 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4713 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4717 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4724 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4727 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4731 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4738 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4740 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4741 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4742 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4743 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4744 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4749 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4752 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4753 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4754 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4759 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4762 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4763 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4767 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4769 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4770 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4774 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4777 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4781 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4783 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4788 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4790 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4791 depend on the build and install targets.
4793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4795 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4797 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4798 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4802 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4809 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4811 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4815 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4817 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4821 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4824 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4825 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4826 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4827 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4828 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4829 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4831 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4832 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4833 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4834 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4835 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4836 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4837 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4841 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4843 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4847 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4853 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4855 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4856 right place. Closes: #55065
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4860 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4867 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4870 * Copyright date updates.
4872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4874 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4876 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4877 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4882 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4888 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4890 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4895 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4901 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4907 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4913 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4915 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4916 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4917 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4918 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4919 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4920 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4921 bits until all files have been registered.
4923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4925 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4927 * dh_installmanpages:
4928 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4929 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4930 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4931 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4932 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4933 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4934 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4935 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4936 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4937 otherwise change the result at all.
4939 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4940 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4941 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4942 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4943 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4948 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4950 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4954 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4956 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4957 act on files that don't exist.
4958 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4959 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4960 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4962 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4963 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4964 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4965 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4969 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4971 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4975 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4977 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4981 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4984 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4988 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4991 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4993 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4994 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4995 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4999 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5001 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
5002 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
5003 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
5004 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
5005 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
5006 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
5007 does not compress. Closes: #41733
5008 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
5010 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
5012 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
5016 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
5023 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
5029 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
5035 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
5038 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
5042 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
5048 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
5052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
5054 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5056 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
5057 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
5058 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
5059 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
5060 I made some changes, though:
5061 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
5062 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
5063 that is a clear violation of policy.
5064 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
5065 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
5066 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
5067 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
5068 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
5069 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
5070 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
5071 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
5072 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
5074 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
5078 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5080 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
5082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
5084 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5086 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
5087 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
5089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
5091 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5093 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
5094 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
5095 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
5098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
5100 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5102 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
5104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
5106 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5108 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
5111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
5113 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5115 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5116 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5117 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5118 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5119 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5120 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5121 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5122 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5126 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5132 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5136 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5137 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5141 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5143 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5147 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5149 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5150 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5154 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5157 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5158 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5162 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5164 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5169 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5173 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5177 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5180 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5181 for the dependancies to be generated.
5183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5185 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5187 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5188 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5192 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5194 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5195 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5196 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5197 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5202 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5204 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5205 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5206 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5210 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5212 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5216 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5218 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5222 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5224 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5225 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5229 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5231 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5235 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5237 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5238 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5239 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5240 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5241 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5242 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5243 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5244 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5245 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5246 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5247 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5248 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5249 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5253 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5255 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5256 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5257 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5259 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5260 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5261 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5262 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5263 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5264 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5266 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5267 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5271 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5273 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5274 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5278 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5280 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5285 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5287 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5288 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5293 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5295 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5296 for building debhelper.
5297 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5301 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5303 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5308 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5310 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5311 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5315 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5317 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5318 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5319 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5320 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5321 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5322 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5323 it's always available.
5325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5327 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5329 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5330 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5331 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5332 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5336 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5339 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5340 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5344 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5346 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5350 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5352 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5353 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5357 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5359 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5363 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5365 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5366 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5367 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5368 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5372 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5374 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5375 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5380 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5382 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5383 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5384 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5386 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5387 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5391 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5397 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5403 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5405 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5406 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5410 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5412 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5413 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5414 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5416 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5420 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5423 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5424 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5425 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5429 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5432 things if CDPATH is set.
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5436 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5442 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5445 seems to make sense for the transition.
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5449 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5452 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5457 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5459 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5460 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5461 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5465 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5467 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5468 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5472 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5474 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5475 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5476 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5477 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5478 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5482 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5484 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5488 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5490 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5491 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5492 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5493 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5494 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5495 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5496 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5497 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5498 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5499 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5500 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
5503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5505 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5507 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5508 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5509 * README: mention doc/v2
5510 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5511 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5515 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5517 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5518 be using this script RSN.
5520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5522 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5524 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5525 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5526 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5527 more than 1 init script.
5529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5531 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5533 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5534 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5538 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5540 * Changed perl version detection.
5541 * Changed call to find.
5543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5545 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5547 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5548 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5550 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5555 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5557 * Really include dh_installpam.
5559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5561 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5563 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5564 * Wrote man page for same.
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5568 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5570 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5571 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5572 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5577 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5584 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5587 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5588 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5589 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5590 x bit was being set!
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5594 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5596 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5597 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5598 well. (Closes: 38900)
5600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5602 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5604 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5605 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5606 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5610 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5612 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5616 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5618 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5623 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5625 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5629 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5631 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5632 help from Julian Gilbey.
5633 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5634 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5635 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5636 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5637 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5638 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5639 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5644 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5646 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5650 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5652 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5657 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5663 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5669 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5671 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5672 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5676 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5678 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5679 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5683 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5685 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5686 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5690 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5692 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5696 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5698 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5699 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5703 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5705 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5709 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5711 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5715 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5717 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5718 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5719 may be deleted. (#35845)
5721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5723 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5725 * Various man page enhancements.
5726 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5731 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5734 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5735 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5739 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5741 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5742 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5743 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5744 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5746 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5747 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5752 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5754 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5758 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * Another very minor typo fix.
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5764 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * Very minor typo fix.
5768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5770 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5772 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5773 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5774 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5778 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5780 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5784 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5786 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5787 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5788 variables properly (#34850).
5790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5792 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5794 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5798 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5800 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5801 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5802 (automatically generated by build process).
5804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5806 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5808 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5812 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5814 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5815 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5816 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5818 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5822 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5824 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5825 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5829 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5831 * README: minor typo fix.
5833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5835 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5837 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5838 leave it at that. :-)
5840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5842 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5844 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5848 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5850 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5854 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5856 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5857 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5858 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5859 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5863 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5865 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5866 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5870 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5872 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5873 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5877 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5879 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5880 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5881 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5882 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5883 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5887 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5889 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5890 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5891 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5892 Craig Small for spotting this.
5894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5896 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5898 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5899 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5900 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5904 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5906 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5910 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5912 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5913 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5917 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5919 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5920 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5921 working on the last version of debhelper.
5923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5925 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5927 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5928 being made. (#23255)
5930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5932 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5934 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5938 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5940 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5941 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5945 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5947 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5948 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5949 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5950 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5951 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5955 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5958 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5959 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5960 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5961 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5963 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5964 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5966 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5971 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5973 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5977 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5979 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5983 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5985 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5986 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5987 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5988 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5989 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5990 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5991 suidregister actually supports it.
5992 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5993 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5997 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5999 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
6002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
6004 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
6006 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
6007 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
6008 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
6009 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
6010 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
6011 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
6012 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
6013 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
6015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
6017 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
6019 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
6020 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
6022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
6024 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
6026 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
6027 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
6028 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
6029 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
6030 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
6032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
6034 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
6036 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
6037 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
6039 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
6040 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
6041 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
6042 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
6043 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
6044 effect, either. (#30118)
6046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
6048 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
6050 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
6052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
6054 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
6056 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
6057 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
6058 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
6060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
6062 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
6064 * Spelling and typo fixes.
6066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
6068 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
6070 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
6071 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
6072 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
6073 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
6074 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
6076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
6078 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
6080 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
6081 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
6082 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
6084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
6086 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
6088 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
6090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
6092 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
6094 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
6095 packages, painlessly.
6097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
6099 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
6101 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
6103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
6105 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
6107 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
6109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
6111 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
6113 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6117 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6119 * The perl conversion is complete.
6121 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6123 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6124 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6125 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6130 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6132 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6133 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6134 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6135 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6139 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6141 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6142 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6144 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6146 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6147 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6151 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6153 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6154 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6155 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6159 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6161 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6165 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6167 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6168 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6169 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6170 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6171 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6172 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6176 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6178 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6179 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6180 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6181 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6182 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6186 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6188 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6189 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6193 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6195 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6196 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6197 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6198 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6199 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6200 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6201 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6202 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6203 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6207 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6209 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6213 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6215 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6216 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6217 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6218 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6223 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6225 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6226 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6230 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6232 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6233 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6237 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6239 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6240 sections of shared libraries.
6241 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6242 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6243 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6244 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6245 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6246 things you don't want them to.
6247 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6248 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6252 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6254 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6255 shared libraries. (#26414)
6257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6259 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6261 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6262 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6263 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6264 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6268 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6270 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6272 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6274 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6275 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6276 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6277 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6278 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6282 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6284 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6285 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6289 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6291 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6292 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6293 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6298 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6300 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6301 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6305 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6307 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6308 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6309 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6310 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6311 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6312 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6314 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6315 remove debian/files properly.
6316 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6317 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6318 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6319 * Removed bogus menu file.
6321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6323 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6325 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6326 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6330 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6332 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6333 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6334 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6335 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6336 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6337 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6338 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6342 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6344 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6345 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6346 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6347 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6348 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6352 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6354 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6359 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6361 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6362 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6363 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6365 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6366 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6367 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6368 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6369 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6370 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6374 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6376 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6377 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6378 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6379 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6380 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6381 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6382 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6383 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6384 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6385 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6386 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6387 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6388 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6389 passed any switches.
6390 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6394 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6396 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6397 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6398 at all for a long while.
6399 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6400 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6401 large chunks in the process.
6402 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6403 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6404 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6409 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6411 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6412 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6414 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6419 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6421 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6422 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6423 that don't always have the same files in them.
6424 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6425 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6426 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6430 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6432 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6434 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6435 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6436 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6437 updating 27 man pages.
6438 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6439 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6440 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6441 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6442 programs act on. (#25247)
6444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6446 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6450 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6451 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6452 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6453 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6454 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6455 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6460 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6462 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6467 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6469 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6474 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6476 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6477 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6481 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6483 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6487 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6489 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6490 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6491 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6492 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6493 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6494 package by accident.
6495 * Is version 1.0 next?
6497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6499 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6501 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6502 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6503 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6507 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6509 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6510 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6511 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6512 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6513 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6514 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6516 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6521 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6523 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6524 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6525 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6529 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6531 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6532 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6536 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6538 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6539 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6540 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6545 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6547 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6551 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6553 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6554 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6555 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6560 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6562 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6566 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6568 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6569 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6570 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6571 past week. Thanks, guys!
6573 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6574 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6575 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6576 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6577 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6578 would do in the same situation.
6579 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6580 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6582 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6584 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6585 permissions changed.
6586 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6587 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6588 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6589 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6590 files are treated identically.
6591 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6592 * Minor man page fixes.
6593 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6594 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6595 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6599 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6601 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6602 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6603 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6604 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6605 use -X multiple times, too.
6606 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6607 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6611 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6613 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6614 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6615 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6619 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6621 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6622 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6626 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6628 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6629 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6630 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6631 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6632 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6633 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6634 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6635 shape if you're starting a new package.
6637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6639 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6641 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6642 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6646 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6648 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6649 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6650 because of missing symlinks.
6652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6654 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6656 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6660 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6662 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6663 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6664 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6665 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6666 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6667 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6669 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6670 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6674 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6676 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6677 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6678 to be changed after the fact :-)
6679 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6683 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6685 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6686 no version string after the -V.
6688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6690 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6692 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6693 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6698 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6700 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6701 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6705 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6707 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6708 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6709 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6710 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6711 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6712 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6713 I always welcome corrections!
6715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6717 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6719 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6723 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6725 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6726 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6727 * Documented this new switch.
6729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6731 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6733 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6734 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6735 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6736 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6737 no packages use the old behavior.
6739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6741 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6743 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6744 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6745 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6749 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6751 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6752 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6756 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6758 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6762 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6764 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6765 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6769 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6771 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6772 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6773 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6774 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6778 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6780 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6784 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6786 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6787 into the source package by accident.
6789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6791 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6793 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6794 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6795 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6796 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6797 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6798 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6799 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6804 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6806 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6808 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6809 inspired to implement some of it.
6810 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6814 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6816 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6817 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6821 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6823 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6824 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6825 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6829 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6831 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6832 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6833 have done.) (#17598)
6835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6837 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6839 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6843 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6845 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6849 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6851 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6852 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6856 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6858 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6859 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6860 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6864 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6866 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6867 argument processor in perl.
6868 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6869 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6870 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6871 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6875 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6877 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6878 type directories. (#16933)
6879 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6880 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6881 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6882 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6883 are supported. (#16935)
6884 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6889 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6891 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6892 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6896 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6898 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6900 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6901 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6902 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6903 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6904 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6905 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6909 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6911 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6912 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6913 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6915 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6916 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6917 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6918 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6919 a given package, or -i or -a.
6920 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6921 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6922 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6923 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6924 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6925 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6926 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6927 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6928 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6930 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6931 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6932 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6936 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6938 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6939 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6940 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6945 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6947 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6948 does not have a section.
6950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6952 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6954 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6955 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6956 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6957 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6961 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6963 * Fixed typo #16215.
6965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6967 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6969 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6970 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6971 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6972 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6973 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6974 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6979 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6981 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6982 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6983 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6984 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6989 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6991 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6995 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6997 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
7001 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
7003 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
7004 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
7005 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
7006 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
7007 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
7008 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
7009 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
7011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
7013 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
7015 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
7017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
7019 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
7021 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
7022 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
7024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
7026 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
7028 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
7029 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
7030 the dh_* programs (#15497).
7031 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
7033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
7035 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
7037 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
7038 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
7040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
7042 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
7044 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
7046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
7048 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
7050 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
7051 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
7053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
7055 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
7057 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
7058 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
7060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
7062 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
7064 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
7066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
7068 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
7070 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
7071 postinst, postrm, etc.
7073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
7075 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
7077 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
7079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
7081 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
7083 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
7084 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
7085 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
7086 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
7087 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
7088 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
7090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
7092 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
7094 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
7095 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
7096 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
7098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
7100 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
7102 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
7103 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
7105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
7107 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
7109 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
7110 installing package files into.
7111 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7116 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7118 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7120 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7124 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7126 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7130 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7132 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7133 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7137 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7139 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7140 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7141 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7142 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7143 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7147 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7149 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7150 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7151 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7152 multiple binary packages.
7153 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7154 should rebuild them with this version.
7155 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7159 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7161 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7162 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7166 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7168 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7169 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7173 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7175 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7176 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7177 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7178 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7179 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7180 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7181 debian/README.debian.
7182 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7183 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7184 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7185 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7186 in a few situations.)
7188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7190 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7192 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7196 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7198 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7202 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7204 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7205 * Fixed several man pages.
7207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7209 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7211 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7212 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7213 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7217 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7219 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7220 is ready for general use.
7221 * Added man pages for all commands.
7222 * Multiple binary package support.
7223 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7224 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7225 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7227 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7228 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7229 auto-installed as parameters.
7230 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7232 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7235 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7236 the package build directory it is to act on.
7237 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7238 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7239 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7243 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7245 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7246 ready to replace debstd.
7248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400