1 debhelper (9.20120510) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Improve -v logging. Closes: #672448
4 * dh_builddeb: Build udebs with xz compression, level 1, extreme strategy.
5 This has been chosen to not need any more memory or cpu when uncompressing,
6 while yeilding the best compressions for udebs. Thanks, Philipp Kern.
7 * Depend on a new enough dpkg for above features. Backporters will need
8 to revert these changes.
10 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2012 11:58:53 -0400
12 debhelper (9.20120509) unstable; urgency=low
14 * dh_installman: Recognize sections from mdoc .Dt entries. Closes: #670210
16 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #671598
17 * dh_install: Reorder documentation for clarity. Closes: #672109
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 May 2012 12:59:15 -0400
21 debhelper (9.20120419) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Fix compat level checking for cmake. Closes: #669181
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:35 -0400
27 debhelper (9.20120418) unstable; urgency=low
29 * cmake: Only pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS in v9.
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:39 -0400
33 debhelper (9.20120417) unstable; urgency=low
35 * cmake: Pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS. Closes: #668813
36 Thanks, Simon Ruderich for the patch and for verifying no affected
37 package is broken by this change.
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:29 -0400
41 debhelper (9.20120410) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891
45 * Conflict with too old automake for AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. Closes: #666901
46 * dh_md5sums: Don't skip DEBIAN directories other than the control files
50 * dh_installinit: rework upstart handling to comply with new policy
51 proposal; packages will ship both an init script and an upstart job,
52 instead of just an upstart job and a symlink to a compat wrapper.
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:51:15 -0400
57 debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low
59 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
60 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
61 Added to interface documentation.
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400
66 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
68 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
72 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
74 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
75 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
76 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
77 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
79 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
80 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
81 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
82 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
83 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
88 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
91 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
92 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
93 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
94 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
95 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
96 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
100 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
102 * Typo. Closes: #653006
103 * Typo. Closes: #653339
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
107 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
109 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
110 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
111 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
112 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
113 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
114 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
118 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
120 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
121 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
122 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
123 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
124 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
125 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
126 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
127 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
131 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
137 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
139 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
140 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
141 may need to disable this.
142 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
143 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
144 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
145 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
149 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
152 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
153 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
157 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
160 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
161 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
163 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
164 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
165 to dh. Closes: #643069
166 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
167 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
171 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
173 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
174 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
175 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
176 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
177 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
179 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
180 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
181 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
183 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
184 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
185 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
186 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
187 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
188 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
189 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
190 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
191 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
192 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
193 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
194 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
195 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
196 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
197 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
201 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
203 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
208 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
210 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
211 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
213 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
219 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
222 Use override targets instead.
223 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
224 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
225 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
226 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
227 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
228 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
229 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
230 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
231 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
232 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
237 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
239 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
240 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
244 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
246 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
250 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
252 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
253 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
254 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
255 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
256 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
257 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
258 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
262 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
264 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
265 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
266 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
267 the targets. Closes: #629139
268 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
269 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
270 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
271 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
272 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
273 are already set to other values will not be changed.
275 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
276 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
277 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
278 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
279 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
284 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
286 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
290 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
293 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
294 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
298 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
301 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
302 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
303 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
304 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
305 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
306 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
307 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
312 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
315 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
316 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
317 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
319 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
320 changes may be added to that mode.
321 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
322 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
323 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
324 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
325 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
326 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
327 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
328 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
329 * Removed old example rules files.
330 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
334 * update french translation.
335 * Fix french misspelling.
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
339 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
341 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
342 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
346 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
349 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
350 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
351 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
352 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
353 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
354 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
355 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
359 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
362 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
363 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
364 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
365 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
366 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
367 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
369 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
370 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
371 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
372 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
373 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
374 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
375 (Thanks, David Prévot)
376 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
377 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
378 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
379 target fails. Closes: #601037
380 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
382 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
383 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
384 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
385 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
386 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
388 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
389 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
391 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
392 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
393 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
395 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
397 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
400 * update french translation.
401 * Fix french misspelling.
402 * French translation update after massive man page typography
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
406 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
409 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
412 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
416 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
418 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
422 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
424 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
425 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
426 introduced by the fix to #527990.
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
430 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
432 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
433 changes are planned for that mode.
434 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
435 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
436 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
437 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
438 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
439 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
440 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
441 (genesis) still uses them.
442 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
443 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
444 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
445 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
446 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
447 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
448 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
449 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
450 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
451 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
452 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
453 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
454 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
455 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
456 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
457 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
458 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
459 commands. (See #570039)
460 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
462 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
467 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
471 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
472 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
473 in control file or debhelper config files.
474 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
478 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
480 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
481 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
482 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
486 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
489 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
493 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
495 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
496 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
497 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
501 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Updated French translation.
504 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
505 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
506 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
507 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
509 * Typo. Closes: #571968
510 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
511 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
512 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
513 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
514 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
515 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
516 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
517 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
518 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
520 * dh: Improve documentation.
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
524 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
526 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
527 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
528 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
532 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
535 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
539 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
541 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
542 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
546 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
549 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
550 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
551 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
552 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
553 options that they do not support.
554 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
555 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
556 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
557 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
558 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
559 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
564 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
568 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
569 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
570 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
571 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
572 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
573 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
574 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
575 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
576 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
580 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
582 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
583 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
584 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
585 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
586 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
590 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Typo. Closes: #558654
593 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
594 installed. Closes: #558782
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
598 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
600 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
601 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
602 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
603 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
604 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
605 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
609 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
611 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
612 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
613 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
614 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
618 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
620 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
621 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
622 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
626 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
628 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
632 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
634 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
635 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
636 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
637 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
638 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
639 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
640 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
641 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
642 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
643 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
644 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
645 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
646 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
647 time soon.) Closes: #554509
648 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
650 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
651 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
652 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
653 document id. Closes: #555677
654 * Typo. Closes: #555659
655 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
656 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
657 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
658 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
660 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
661 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
662 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
667 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
670 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
671 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
672 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
673 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
674 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
675 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
676 translation (#494300 part 2)
679 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
681 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
682 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
683 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
684 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
685 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
689 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
692 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
693 (It was only run once due to logging.)
694 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
695 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
696 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
697 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
698 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
699 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
700 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
701 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
702 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
703 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
707 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
710 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
711 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
714 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
715 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
719 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
721 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
722 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
723 flag with arch all/any packages.
724 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
725 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
726 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
727 situation. Closes: #540794
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
731 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
733 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
735 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
736 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
737 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
738 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
739 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
742 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
743 the default. Closes: #538201
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
748 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
752 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
753 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
754 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
755 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
756 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
758 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
759 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
760 * Above Closes: #491117
761 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
766 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
769 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
772 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
773 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
774 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
778 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
781 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
782 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
783 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
784 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
785 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
790 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
792 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
793 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
794 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
798 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
800 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
804 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
806 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
807 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
809 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
810 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
811 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
815 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
817 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
818 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
822 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
828 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
830 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
831 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
832 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
837 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
839 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
843 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
846 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
847 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
848 created by using `python' first during build and install.
850 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
855 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
857 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
861 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
863 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
864 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
868 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
870 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
874 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
876 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
880 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
882 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
883 contributed by Modestas Vainius
884 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
885 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
886 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
887 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
888 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
889 that support it. Closes: #480577
890 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
891 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
892 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
894 - Adds support for cmake.
895 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
896 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
898 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
900 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
901 that use them. The options are:
902 --sourcedir, --destdir
903 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
904 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
905 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
906 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
907 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
911 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
913 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
917 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
919 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
920 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
921 default. Closes: #537140
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
925 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
927 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
928 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
929 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
933 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
935 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
936 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
940 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
942 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
943 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
947 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
950 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
952 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
953 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
954 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
958 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
960 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
961 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
962 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
963 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
967 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
970 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
971 warning or deprecation message.
972 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
973 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
974 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
975 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
976 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
977 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
978 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
979 Closes: #534639, #357434
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
983 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
989 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
992 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
993 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
994 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
995 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
997 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
998 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
999 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
1003 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
1009 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
1016 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
1019 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
1023 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
1027 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
1028 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
1030 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
1031 file support. Closes: #494914
1032 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
1036 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
1039 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
1040 parameters. Closes: #527256
1041 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
1042 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
1043 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
1047 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
1050 (Patch from #459548)
1051 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
1052 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
1053 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1057 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1060 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1061 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1062 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1066 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1069 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1070 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1072 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1073 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1074 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1078 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1082 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1086 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1089 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1090 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1091 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1092 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1097 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1103 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1106 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1107 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1108 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1109 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1110 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1112 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1113 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1114 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1115 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1116 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1117 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1121 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1124 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1125 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1126 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1127 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1128 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1130 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1134 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1136 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1140 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1142 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1143 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1144 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1145 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1146 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1147 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1148 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1149 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1150 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1151 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1152 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1156 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1158 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1159 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1161 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1162 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1163 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1164 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1166 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1167 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1171 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1173 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1174 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1175 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1176 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1177 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1178 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1179 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1181 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1182 that uses them. Affected options are:
1183 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1184 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1185 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1186 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1187 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1188 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1189 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1190 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1191 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1192 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1193 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1194 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1198 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1205 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1211 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1214 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1216 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1217 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1218 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1219 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1220 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1221 than the old method.
1222 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1224 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1225 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1226 rules (see bug #509756).
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1230 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1236 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1237 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1238 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1239 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1243 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1246 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1247 empty files. Closes: #490937
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1251 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1257 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1264 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1267 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1268 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1269 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1270 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1275 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1277 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1278 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1279 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1280 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1284 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1287 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1288 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1289 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1290 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1291 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1295 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1302 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1305 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1306 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1307 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1308 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1309 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1310 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1311 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1312 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1313 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1317 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1320 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1321 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1322 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1323 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1325 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1326 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1327 breaking backwards compatibility.
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1331 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1334 message in perl 5.10.
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1338 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1344 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1347 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1351 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1354 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1358 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1361 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1362 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1363 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1364 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1365 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1366 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1367 logging by dh_listpackages.
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1371 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1374 run and there are no packages of that type.
1375 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1376 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1377 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1378 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1380 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1381 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1385 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1388 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1389 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1393 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1396 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1397 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1399 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1400 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1401 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1402 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1403 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1404 planned but not yet implemented.)
1405 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1406 if the Makefile has such a target.
1407 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1408 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1409 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1410 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1411 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1412 but not yet implemented.)
1413 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1414 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1415 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1416 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1417 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1419 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1421 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1422 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1424 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1425 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1426 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1431 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1434 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1435 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1439 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1441 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1442 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1443 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1447 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1453 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1459 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1462 just those installed by the program.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1466 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1469 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1470 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1474 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1477 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1478 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1479 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1480 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1484 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1487 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1488 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1492 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1495 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1496 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1500 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1503 with policy. Closes: #461392
1504 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1505 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1506 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1507 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1508 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1512 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1515 Closes: #460340, #460351
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1519 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1522 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1523 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1524 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1525 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1529 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1532 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1533 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1534 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1535 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1536 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1537 package build directory won't work.
1538 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1539 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1540 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1541 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1542 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1543 mode. Closes: #459426
1544 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1549 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1552 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1556 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1560 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1561 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1562 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1563 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1564 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1565 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1569 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1572 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1573 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1574 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1575 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1579 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1582 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1583 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1584 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1585 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1586 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1590 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1593 debian/package.triggers files.
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1597 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1600 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1604 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1607 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1608 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1609 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1610 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1615 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1618 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1622 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1625 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1626 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1628 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1633 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1637 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1638 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1639 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1643 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1650 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1657 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1660 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1662 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1663 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1664 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1666 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1667 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1668 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1672 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1675 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1676 * Update urls to web page.
1677 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1678 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1679 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1680 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1684 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1687 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1688 - typo in alternatives call
1689 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1691 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1692 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1696 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1699 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1704 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1710 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1716 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1719 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1721 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1722 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1723 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1724 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1725 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1726 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1727 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1728 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1729 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1730 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1731 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1735 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1738 package install. Closes: #415717
1739 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1740 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1741 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1742 script and then remove the python files.
1743 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1744 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1745 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1746 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1747 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1748 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1749 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1750 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1751 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1752 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1753 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1754 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1755 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1759 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Correct typo in french translation
1765 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1766 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1768 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1770 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1771 Closes: #406921, #381940
1772 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1774 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1775 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1776 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1777 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1778 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1779 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1780 specified). Closes: #381851
1781 * Misc minor changes.
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1785 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1792 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1793 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1797 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1803 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1804 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1807 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1808 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1810 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1811 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1812 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1813 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1817 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1820 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1823 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1827 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1833 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1839 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1840 a difficult situation.
1841 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1842 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1843 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1844 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1845 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1846 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1847 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1848 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1849 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1850 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1854 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * Non-maintainer upload.
1857 * Update of dh_python
1858 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1859 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1861 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1862 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1863 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1864 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1865 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1867 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1869 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Non-maintainer upload.
1872 * Update of dh_python
1873 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1874 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1875 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1876 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1877 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1878 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1879 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1880 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1881 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1882 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1884 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1885 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1886 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1887 the not too-distant future).
1888 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1889 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1890 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1891 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1892 thus made the build fail.
1894 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1896 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Non-maintainer upload.
1899 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1901 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1903 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1906 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1907 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1908 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1909 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1910 package. Closes: #301424
1911 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1912 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1913 fonts). Closes: #372686
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1917 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1923 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1924 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1925 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1926 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1927 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1928 above, but already depends on that.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1932 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1935 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1936 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1937 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1938 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1939 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1943 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1949 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1955 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1956 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1960 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1963 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1967 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1971 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1972 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1973 new version (0.24.1).
1974 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1975 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1978 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1979 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1980 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1981 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1982 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1983 new directory on their own.
1984 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1985 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1989 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1992 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1993 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1994 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1995 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1999 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
2002 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
2003 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
2004 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
2005 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
2006 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
2010 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
2016 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * Typo. Closes: #358904
2020 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
2021 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
2025 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2026 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
2030 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
2032 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
2033 || exit 0 instead of the intended
2035 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
2036 ignored. Closes: #337664
2038 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
2043 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
2049 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
2054 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
2055 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2056 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2057 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2058 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2059 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2060 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2064 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2067 version. Closes: #350607
2068 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2069 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2070 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2071 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2075 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2078 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2079 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2080 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2084 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2091 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2097 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2100 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2104 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2107 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2108 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2109 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2110 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2111 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2112 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2116 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2119 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2120 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2125 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2128 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2132 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2135 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2139 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2142 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2143 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2144 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2145 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2146 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2147 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2151 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2155 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2156 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2157 link. Closes: #346405
2158 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2160 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2161 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2162 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2163 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2164 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2165 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2166 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2170 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2177 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2183 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2186 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2190 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2193 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2198 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2202 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2203 installed. Closes: #342033
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2207 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2210 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2211 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2212 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2217 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2223 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2229 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2233 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2234 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2235 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2239 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2242 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2247 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2254 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2260 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2263 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2264 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2265 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2266 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2267 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2268 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2269 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2271 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2275 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2278 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2279 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2283 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2286 in standard man dirs.
2287 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2291 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2297 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2300 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2305 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2312 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2319 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2322 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2323 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2327 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2330 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2331 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2332 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2334 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2336 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2342 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2348 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2351 mode. Closes: #324161
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2355 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2358 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2359 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2360 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2361 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2366 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2369 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2370 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2371 is necesary for sanity.
2372 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2373 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2378 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2380 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2381 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2385 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2388 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2392 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2398 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2401 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2402 released, so use at your own risk.
2403 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2404 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2406 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2407 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2408 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2409 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2410 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2411 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2412 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2413 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2414 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2415 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2416 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2417 including twice per config file line now..
2418 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2419 and simplfy the rules file.
2420 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2421 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2422 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2424 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2425 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2429 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2432 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2436 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2439 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2443 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2446 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2450 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2453 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2454 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2455 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2456 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2457 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2458 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2462 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2465 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2466 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2467 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2472 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2475 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2476 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2481 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2484 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2485 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2486 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2491 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2494 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2495 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2496 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2500 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2506 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2513 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2516 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2517 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2518 unknown. Closes: #282924
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2522 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2529 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Spanish man page updates.
2532 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2537 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2543 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2546 * dh_desktop: reindent
2547 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2548 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2552 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2558 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2560 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2564 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2566 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2570 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2573 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2574 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2578 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2584 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2590 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2597 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2600 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2604 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2607 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2608 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2609 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2610 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2611 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2612 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2614 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2615 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2616 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2617 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2618 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2619 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2620 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2621 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2622 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2623 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2624 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2625 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2626 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2627 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2628 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2629 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2633 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2640 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2643 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2647 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2650 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2654 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2657 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2661 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2664 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2668 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2674 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2680 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2686 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2689 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2690 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2691 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2695 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2698 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2702 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2705 but occasionally right and necessary.
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2709 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2712 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2713 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2714 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2715 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2716 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2720 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2723 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2725 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2726 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2727 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2728 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2729 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2730 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2731 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2732 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2733 postinst scripts for udebs.
2734 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2738 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2741 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2743 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2744 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2748 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2754 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2761 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2768 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2771 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2775 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2778 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2782 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2785 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2788 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2789 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2793 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2799 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2802 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2806 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2809 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2810 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2811 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2813 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2815 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2816 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2817 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2821 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2824 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2829 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2832 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2833 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2834 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2839 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2845 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2851 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2854 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2855 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2856 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2857 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2858 associated -dbg packages.
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2862 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2865 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2869 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2872 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2876 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2879 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2883 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2886 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2891 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2894 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2898 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2901 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2906 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2909 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2913 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2917 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2918 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2919 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2920 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2921 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2922 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2923 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2924 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2925 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2926 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2930 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2933 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2938 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2941 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2942 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2946 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2949 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2950 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2955 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2958 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2962 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2965 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2969 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2972 out section number. Closes: #204731
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2976 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2983 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2989 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2995 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2998 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2999 removal. Closes: #204286
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
3003 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
3006 renaming. Closes: #203548
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
3010 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
3013 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
3014 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
3018 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
3024 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
3030 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
3036 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
3039 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
3040 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
3041 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
3045 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
3048 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
3049 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
3053 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3059 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3066 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3069 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3074 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3077 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3081 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3084 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3086 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3087 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3091 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3094 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3099 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3102 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3106 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3112 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3114 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3118 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3121 it break hard links (see #188663).
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3125 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3128 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3132 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3138 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3142 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3143 debconf-mergetemplates
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3147 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3150 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3154 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3157 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3161 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3164 * Update debhelper(1).
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3168 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3171 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3172 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3173 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3174 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3175 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3179 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3182 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3183 the shell. Closes: #178524
3184 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3188 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3191 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3195 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3198 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3202 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3205 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3206 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3207 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3208 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3213 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3216 files from installation.
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3220 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3223 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3224 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3228 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3231 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3235 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3238 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3242 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3248 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3254 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3258 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3259 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3261 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3265 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3268 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3269 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3270 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3271 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3275 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3278 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3282 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3285 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3286 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3290 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3294 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3299 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3305 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3309 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3310 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3311 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3316 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3319 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3320 practice. Closes: #163303
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3324 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3330 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3337 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3340 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3342 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3343 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3344 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3345 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3346 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3350 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3353 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3358 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3364 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3371 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3374 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3379 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3385 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3391 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3397 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3404 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3407 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3408 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3409 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3410 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3415 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3421 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3428 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3431 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3432 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3436 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3438 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3439 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3440 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3441 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3442 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3443 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3447 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3450 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3452 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3457 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3460 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3464 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3467 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3468 right thing. Closes: #150644
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3472 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * Stupid, evil typo.
3475 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3479 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3486 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3489 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3490 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3495 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3501 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3504 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3508 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3511 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3512 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3517 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3520 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3524 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3530 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3533 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3534 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3538 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3544 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * Removing perl warning message.
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3550 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3553 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3554 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3555 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3556 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3557 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3558 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3559 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3560 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3564 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3570 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3577 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3580 debconf-mergetemplate.
3581 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3582 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3586 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3589 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3590 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3591 dh_install, which ...
3592 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3593 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3594 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3595 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3596 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3597 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3598 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3599 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3600 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3601 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3602 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3603 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3604 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3605 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3606 other minor changes.
3607 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3608 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3609 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3610 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3611 course there's -X ..)
3612 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3613 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3614 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3616 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3617 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3618 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3619 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3620 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3625 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3631 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3634 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3638 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3644 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3650 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3656 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3662 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3665 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3666 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3667 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3668 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3670 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3671 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3675 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3681 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3684 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3688 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3691 upset. Closes: #131322
3693 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3695 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3698 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3699 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3700 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3701 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3702 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3703 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3704 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3705 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3706 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3707 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3708 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3709 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3710 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3711 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3712 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3714 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3718 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3721 - Better indenting of generated code.
3722 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3726 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3730 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3731 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3732 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3733 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3734 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3735 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3736 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3740 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3743 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3747 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3749 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3750 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3751 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3752 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3753 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3754 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3755 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3756 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3757 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3758 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3759 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3760 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3761 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3762 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3763 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3764 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3769 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3775 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3778 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3779 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3783 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3786 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3787 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3791 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3797 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3800 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3801 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3802 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3803 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3804 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3809 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3815 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3818 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3822 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3825 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3830 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3836 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3839 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3843 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3849 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3853 Also some indentation fixes.
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3857 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3860 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3861 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3862 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3863 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3864 Closes: #106514, #85520
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3868 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3874 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3880 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3886 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3892 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3898 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3901 change it in debhelper v4..
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3905 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3911 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3913 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3914 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3918 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3920 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3921 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3925 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3927 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3931 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3933 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3934 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3935 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3936 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3937 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3938 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3939 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3940 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3941 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3942 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3943 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3944 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3945 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3949 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3952 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3956 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3963 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3966 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3967 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3968 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3969 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3970 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3971 program those options go to. So, for example,
3972 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3973 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3974 something complex. Closes: #89311
3975 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3979 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3982 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3983 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3984 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3988 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3990 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3991 through loop. Closes: #98598
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3995 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3997 * Missing semi-colon.
3998 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3999 this (dh_* should be called, really).
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
4003 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4005 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
4006 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
4007 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
4008 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
4012 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
4015 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
4016 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
4018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
4020 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4022 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
4023 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
4027 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4029 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
4030 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
4031 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
4035 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
4038 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
4039 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
4040 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
4044 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
4047 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
4048 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
4049 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
4053 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4056 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4060 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4066 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4072 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4078 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4084 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4087 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4091 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4094 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4095 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4096 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4097 followed. Closes: #85483
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4101 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4103 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4104 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4105 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4109 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4112 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4113 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4114 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4115 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4116 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4117 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4118 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4119 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4120 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4121 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4122 Closes: #88464, #77743
4123 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4124 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4125 us to deal with that gracefully.
4126 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4128 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4129 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4130 a while, Closes: #51225
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4134 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4140 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4143 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4147 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4149 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4151 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4156 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4159 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4160 don't make packlist files.
4161 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4162 debhelper coding standards.
4163 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4164 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4168 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4171 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4175 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4177 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4178 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4179 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4180 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4181 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4182 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4183 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4184 but is mildly deprecated.
4185 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4186 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4187 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4188 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4189 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4190 switching to statoverrides..
4191 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4192 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4193 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4194 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4195 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4196 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4198 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4199 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4200 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4201 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4202 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4203 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4204 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4205 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4206 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4208 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4209 variable names, pod man pages).
4210 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4211 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4212 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4213 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4214 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4215 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4216 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4220 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4222 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4226 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4233 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4235 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4236 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4240 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4242 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4243 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4244 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4248 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4250 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4251 they were previously ignored.
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4255 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4257 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4258 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4262 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4264 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4265 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4266 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4270 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4272 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4276 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4278 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4279 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4283 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4285 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4286 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4287 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4288 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4289 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4290 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4291 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4292 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4293 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4294 it is an obsolete program.
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4298 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4300 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4304 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4308 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4310 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4314 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4316 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4318 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4320 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4324 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4330 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4332 * typo: Closes, #78567
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4336 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4338 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4342 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4348 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4351 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4352 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4353 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4354 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4355 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4359 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4361 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4362 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4367 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4370 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4371 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4372 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4373 backwards-compatibility.
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4377 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4380 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4381 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4382 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4383 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4384 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4385 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4387 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4388 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4389 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4391 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4393 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4394 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4395 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4396 should now be raised to severity important..
4397 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4398 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4402 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4404 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4405 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4410 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4416 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4422 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4428 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4430 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4435 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4437 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4438 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4439 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4440 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4441 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4445 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4451 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4454 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4455 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4456 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4457 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4458 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4459 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4464 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4466 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4467 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4471 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4473 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4477 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4480 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4485 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4488 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4489 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4490 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4491 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4495 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4499 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4502 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4505 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4506 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4509 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4511 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4512 the TODO entry about it.
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4516 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4523 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4525 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4526 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4527 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4531 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4533 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4534 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4535 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4536 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4537 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4541 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4547 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4554 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4557 (this appears to be logal).
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4561 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4564 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4565 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4566 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4567 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4571 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4573 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4577 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4579 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4580 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4581 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4582 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4583 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4587 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4593 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4596 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4600 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4607 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4610 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4611 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4612 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4617 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4624 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4630 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4633 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4634 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4635 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4636 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4637 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4638 notice until v2 is complete.
4639 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
4640 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4641 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4642 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4643 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4644 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4646 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4647 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4648 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4649 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4653 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4659 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4666 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4669 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4673 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4680 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4683 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4684 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4685 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4686 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4691 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4693 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4694 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4695 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4696 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4701 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4703 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4704 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4705 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4709 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4712 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4716 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4719 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4723 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4730 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4732 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4733 depend on the build and install targets.
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4737 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4740 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4744 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4751 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4753 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4757 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4759 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4763 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4766 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4767 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4768 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4769 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4770 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4771 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4773 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4774 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4775 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4776 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4777 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4778 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4779 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4783 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4789 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4795 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4797 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4798 right place. Closes: #55065
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4802 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4809 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4811 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4812 * Copyright date updates.
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4816 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4818 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4819 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4824 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4830 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4837 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4843 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4849 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4851 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4855 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4858 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4859 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4860 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4861 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4862 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4863 bits until all files have been registered.
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4867 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * dh_installmanpages:
4870 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4871 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4872 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4873 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4874 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4875 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4876 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4877 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4878 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4879 otherwise change the result at all.
4881 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4882 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4883 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4884 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4885 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4890 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4896 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4899 act on files that don't exist.
4900 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4901 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4902 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4904 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4905 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4906 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4907 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4911 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4913 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4917 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4923 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4925 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4926 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4930 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4933 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4935 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4936 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4937 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4941 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4943 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4944 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4945 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4946 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4947 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4948 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4949 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4950 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4952 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4954 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4958 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4965 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4967 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4971 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4977 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4980 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4984 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4990 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4992 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4996 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4999 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
5000 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
5001 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
5002 I made some changes, though:
5003 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
5004 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
5005 that is a clear violation of policy.
5006 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
5007 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
5008 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
5009 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
5010 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
5011 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
5012 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
5013 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
5014 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
5016 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
5018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
5020 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5022 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
5026 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
5029 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
5033 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
5036 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
5037 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
5042 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
5048 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
5053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
5055 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5057 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5058 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5059 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5060 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5061 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5062 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5063 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5064 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5068 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5074 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5076 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5078 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5079 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5083 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5085 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5089 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5091 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5092 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5096 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5098 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5099 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5100 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5104 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5106 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5111 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5113 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5115 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5119 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5122 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5123 for the dependancies to be generated.
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5127 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5130 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5134 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5137 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5138 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5139 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5144 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5146 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5147 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5148 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5152 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5154 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5158 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5160 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5164 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5167 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5171 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5177 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5180 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5181 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5182 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5183 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5184 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5185 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5186 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5187 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5188 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5189 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5190 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5191 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5195 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5198 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5199 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5201 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5202 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5203 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5204 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5205 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5206 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5208 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5209 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5213 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5215 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5216 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5220 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5222 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5227 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5229 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5230 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5235 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5237 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5238 for building debhelper.
5239 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5243 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5245 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5250 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5252 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5253 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5257 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5260 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5261 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5262 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5263 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5264 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5265 it's always available.
5267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5269 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5271 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5272 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5273 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5274 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5278 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5280 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5281 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5282 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5286 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5288 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5292 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5294 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5295 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5299 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5301 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5305 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5307 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5308 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5309 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5310 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5314 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5316 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5317 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5322 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5324 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5325 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5326 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5328 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5329 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5333 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5335 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5339 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5345 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5348 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5352 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5355 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5356 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5358 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5362 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5364 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5365 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5366 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5367 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5371 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5374 things if CDPATH is set.
5376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5378 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5380 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5384 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5387 seems to make sense for the transition.
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5391 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5394 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5399 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5401 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5402 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5403 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5407 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5409 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5410 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5414 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5417 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5418 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5419 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5420 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5424 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5426 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5430 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5432 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5433 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5434 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5435 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5436 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5437 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5438 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5439 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5440 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5441 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5442 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5447 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5450 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5451 * README: mention doc/v2
5452 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5453 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5457 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5459 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5460 be using this script RSN.
5462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5464 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5466 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5467 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5468 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5469 more than 1 init script.
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5473 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5476 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5480 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * Changed perl version detection.
5483 * Changed call to find.
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5487 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5490 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5492 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5497 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5499 * Really include dh_installpam.
5501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5503 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5505 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5506 * Wrote man page for same.
5508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5510 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5512 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5513 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5514 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5519 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5526 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5529 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5530 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5531 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5532 x bit was being set!
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5536 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5539 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5540 well. (Closes: 38900)
5542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5544 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5546 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5547 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5548 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5552 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5554 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5558 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5565 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5567 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5571 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5574 help from Julian Gilbey.
5575 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5576 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5577 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5578 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5579 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5580 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5581 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5586 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5588 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5592 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5594 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5599 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5605 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5611 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5613 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5614 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5618 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5620 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5621 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5625 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5628 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5632 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5634 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5638 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5640 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5641 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5645 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5647 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5651 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5657 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5660 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5661 may be deleted. (#35845)
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5665 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * Various man page enhancements.
5668 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5673 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5675 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5676 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5677 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5681 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5683 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5684 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5685 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5686 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5688 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5689 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5694 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5696 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5700 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5702 * Another very minor typo fix.
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5706 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * Very minor typo fix.
5710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5712 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5714 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5715 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5716 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5720 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5722 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5726 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5728 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5729 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5730 variables properly (#34850).
5732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5734 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5736 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5740 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5743 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5744 (automatically generated by build process).
5746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5748 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5750 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5754 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5756 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5757 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5758 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5760 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5764 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5767 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5771 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * README: minor typo fix.
5775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5777 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5779 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5780 leave it at that. :-)
5782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5784 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5786 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5790 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5792 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5796 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5798 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5799 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5800 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5801 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5805 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5807 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5808 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5812 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5814 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5815 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5819 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5821 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5822 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5823 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5824 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5825 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5829 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5831 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5832 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5833 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5834 Craig Small for spotting this.
5836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5838 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5840 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5841 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5842 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5846 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5848 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5852 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5854 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5855 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5859 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5861 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5862 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5863 working on the last version of debhelper.
5865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5867 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5869 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5870 being made. (#23255)
5872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5874 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5876 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5880 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5882 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5883 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5887 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5889 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5890 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5891 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5892 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5893 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5897 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5899 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5900 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5901 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5902 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5903 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5905 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5906 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5908 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5913 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5915 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5919 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5921 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5925 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5927 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5928 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5929 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5930 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5931 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5932 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5933 suidregister actually supports it.
5934 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5935 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5939 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5941 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5946 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5949 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5950 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5951 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5952 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5953 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5954 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5955 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5959 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5961 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5962 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5966 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5968 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5969 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5970 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5971 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5972 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5976 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5978 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5979 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5981 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5982 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5983 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5984 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5985 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5986 effect, either. (#30118)
5988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5990 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5992 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5996 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5998 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5999 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
6000 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
6002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
6004 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
6006 * Spelling and typo fixes.
6008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
6010 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
6012 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
6013 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
6014 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
6015 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
6016 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
6018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
6020 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
6022 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
6023 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
6024 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
6026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
6028 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
6030 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
6032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
6034 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
6036 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
6037 packages, painlessly.
6039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
6041 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
6043 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
6045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
6047 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
6049 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
6051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
6053 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
6055 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6059 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6061 * The perl conversion is complete.
6063 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6065 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6066 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6067 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6072 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6074 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6075 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6076 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6077 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6081 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6083 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6084 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6086 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6088 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6089 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6093 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6095 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6096 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6097 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6101 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6103 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6107 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6109 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6110 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6111 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6112 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6113 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6114 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6118 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6120 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6121 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6122 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6123 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6124 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6128 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6130 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6131 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6135 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6137 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6138 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6139 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6140 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6141 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6142 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6143 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6144 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6145 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6149 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6151 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6155 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6157 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6158 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6159 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6160 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6165 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6167 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6168 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6172 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6174 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6175 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6179 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6181 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6182 sections of shared libraries.
6183 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6184 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6185 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6186 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6187 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6188 things you don't want them to.
6189 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6190 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6194 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6196 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6197 shared libraries. (#26414)
6199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6201 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6203 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6204 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6205 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6206 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6210 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6212 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6214 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6216 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6217 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6218 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6219 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6220 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6224 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6226 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6227 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6231 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6233 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6234 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6235 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6240 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6242 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6243 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6247 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6249 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6250 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6251 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6252 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6253 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6254 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6256 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6257 remove debian/files properly.
6258 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6259 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6260 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6261 * Removed bogus menu file.
6263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6265 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6267 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6268 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6272 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6274 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6275 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6276 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6277 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6278 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6279 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6280 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6284 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6286 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6287 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6288 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6289 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6290 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6294 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6296 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6301 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6303 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6304 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6305 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6307 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6308 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6309 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6310 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6311 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6312 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6316 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6318 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6319 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6320 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6321 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6322 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6323 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6324 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6325 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6326 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6327 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6328 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6329 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6330 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6331 passed any switches.
6332 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6336 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6338 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6339 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6340 at all for a long while.
6341 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6342 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6343 large chunks in the process.
6344 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6345 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6346 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6351 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6353 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6354 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6356 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6361 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6363 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6364 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6365 that don't always have the same files in them.
6366 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6367 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6368 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6372 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6374 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6376 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6377 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6378 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6379 updating 27 man pages.
6380 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6381 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6382 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6383 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6384 programs act on. (#25247)
6386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6388 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6392 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6393 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6394 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6395 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6396 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6397 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6402 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6404 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6409 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6411 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6416 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6418 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6419 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6423 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6425 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6429 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6431 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6432 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6433 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6434 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6435 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6436 package by accident.
6437 * Is version 1.0 next?
6439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6441 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6443 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6444 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6445 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6449 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6451 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6452 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6453 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6454 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6455 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6456 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6458 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6463 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6465 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6466 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6467 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6471 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6473 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6474 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6478 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6480 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6481 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6482 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6487 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6489 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6493 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6495 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6496 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6497 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6502 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6504 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6508 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6510 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6511 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6512 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6513 past week. Thanks, guys!
6515 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6516 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6517 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6518 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6519 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6520 would do in the same situation.
6521 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6522 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6524 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6526 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6527 permissions changed.
6528 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6529 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6530 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6531 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6532 files are treated identically.
6533 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6534 * Minor man page fixes.
6535 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6536 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6537 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6541 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6543 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6544 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6545 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6546 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6547 use -X multiple times, too.
6548 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6549 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6553 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6555 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6556 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6557 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6561 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6563 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6564 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6568 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6570 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6571 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6572 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6573 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6574 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6575 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6576 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6577 shape if you're starting a new package.
6579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6581 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6583 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6584 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6588 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6590 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6591 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6592 because of missing symlinks.
6594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6596 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6598 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6602 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6604 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6605 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6606 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6607 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6608 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6609 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6611 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6612 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6616 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6618 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6619 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6620 to be changed after the fact :-)
6621 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6625 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6627 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6628 no version string after the -V.
6630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6632 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6634 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6635 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6640 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6642 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6643 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6647 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6649 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6650 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6651 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6652 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6653 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6654 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6655 I always welcome corrections!
6657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6659 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6661 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6665 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6667 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6668 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6669 * Documented this new switch.
6671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6673 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6675 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6676 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6677 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6678 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6679 no packages use the old behavior.
6681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6683 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6685 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6686 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6687 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6691 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6693 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6694 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6698 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6700 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6704 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6706 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6707 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6711 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6713 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6714 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6715 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6716 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6720 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6722 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6726 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6728 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6729 into the source package by accident.
6731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6733 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6735 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6736 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6737 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6738 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6739 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6740 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6741 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6746 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6748 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6750 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6751 inspired to implement some of it.
6752 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6756 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6758 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6759 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6763 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6765 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6766 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6767 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6771 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6773 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6774 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6775 have done.) (#17598)
6777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6779 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6781 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6785 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6787 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6791 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6793 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6794 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6798 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6800 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6801 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6802 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6806 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6808 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6809 argument processor in perl.
6810 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6811 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6812 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6813 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6817 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6819 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6820 type directories. (#16933)
6821 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6822 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6823 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6824 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6825 are supported. (#16935)
6826 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6831 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6833 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6834 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6838 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6840 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6842 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6843 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6844 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6845 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6846 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6847 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6851 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6853 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6854 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6855 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6857 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6858 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6859 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6860 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6861 a given package, or -i or -a.
6862 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6863 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6864 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6865 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6866 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6867 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6868 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6869 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6870 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6872 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6873 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6874 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6878 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6880 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6881 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6882 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6887 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6889 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6890 does not have a section.
6892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6894 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6896 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6897 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6898 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6899 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6903 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6905 * Fixed typo #16215.
6907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6909 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6911 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6912 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6913 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6914 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6915 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6916 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6921 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6923 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6924 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6925 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6926 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6931 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6933 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6937 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6939 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6943 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6945 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6946 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6947 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6948 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6949 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6950 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6951 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6955 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6957 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6961 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6963 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6964 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6968 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6970 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6971 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6972 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6973 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6977 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6979 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6980 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6984 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6986 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6990 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6992 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6993 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6997 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6999 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
7000 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
7002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
7004 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
7006 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
7008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
7010 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
7012 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
7013 postinst, postrm, etc.
7015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
7017 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
7019 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
7021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
7023 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
7025 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
7026 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
7027 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
7028 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
7029 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
7030 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
7032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
7034 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
7036 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
7037 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
7038 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
7040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
7042 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
7044 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
7045 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
7047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
7049 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
7051 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
7052 installing package files into.
7053 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7058 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7060 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7062 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7066 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7068 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7072 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7074 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7075 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7079 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7081 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7082 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7083 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7084 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7085 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7089 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7091 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7092 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7093 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7094 multiple binary packages.
7095 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7096 should rebuild them with this version.
7097 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7101 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7103 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7104 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7108 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7110 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7111 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7115 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7117 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7118 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7119 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7120 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7121 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7122 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7123 debian/README.debian.
7124 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7125 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7126 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7127 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7128 in a few situations.)
7130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7132 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7134 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7138 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7140 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7144 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7146 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7147 * Fixed several man pages.
7149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7151 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7153 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7154 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7155 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7159 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7161 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7162 is ready for general use.
7163 * Added man pages for all commands.
7164 * Multiple binary package support.
7165 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7166 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7167 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7169 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7170 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7171 auto-installed as parameters.
7172 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7174 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7177 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7178 the package build directory it is to act on.
7179 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7180 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7181 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7185 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7187 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7188 ready to replace debstd.
7190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400