1 debhelper (9.20120528) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installcatalogs: Turn /etc/sgml/$package.cat into conffiles
4 and introduce dependency on trigger-based sgml-base. Closes: #477751
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 May 2012 13:40:26 -0400
9 debhelper (9.20120523) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #673629 Thanks, Omar Campagne
12 * Set Multi-Arch: foreign. Closes: #674193
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 May 2012 14:55:48 -0400
16 debhelper (9.20120518) unstable; urgency=low
18 * Fix versioned dependency on dpkg for xz options. Closes: #672895
19 * dh_link: Doc improvement. Closes: #672988
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 May 2012 11:05:03 -0400
23 debhelper (9.20120513) unstable; urgency=low
25 * Improve -v logging. Closes: #672448
26 * dh_builddeb: Build udebs with xz compression, level 1, extreme strategy.
27 This has been chosen to not need any more memory or cpu when uncompressing,
28 while yeilding the best compressions for udebs. Thanks, Philipp Kern.
29 * Depend on a new enough dpkg for above features. Backporters will need
30 to revert these changes.
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 May 2012 13:09:42 -0400
34 debhelper (9.20120509) unstable; urgency=low
36 * dh_installman: Recognize sections from mdoc .Dt entries. Closes: #670210
38 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #671598
39 * dh_install: Reorder documentation for clarity. Closes: #672109
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 May 2012 12:59:15 -0400
43 debhelper (9.20120419) unstable; urgency=low
45 * Fix compat level checking for cmake. Closes: #669181
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:35 -0400
49 debhelper (9.20120418) unstable; urgency=low
51 * cmake: Only pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS in v9.
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:39 -0400
55 debhelper (9.20120417) unstable; urgency=low
57 * cmake: Pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS. Closes: #668813
58 Thanks, Simon Ruderich for the patch and for verifying no affected
59 package is broken by this change.
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:29 -0400
63 debhelper (9.20120410) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891
67 * Conflict with too old automake for AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. Closes: #666901
68 * dh_md5sums: Don't skip DEBIAN directories other than the control files
72 * dh_installinit: rework upstart handling to comply with new policy
73 proposal; packages will ship both an init script and an upstart job,
74 instead of just an upstart job and a symlink to a compat wrapper.
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:51:15 -0400
79 debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
82 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
83 Added to interface documentation.
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400
88 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
94 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
96 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
97 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
98 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
99 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
101 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
102 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
103 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
104 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
105 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
110 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
113 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
114 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
115 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
116 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
117 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
118 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
122 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Typo. Closes: #653006
125 * Typo. Closes: #653339
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
129 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
131 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
132 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
133 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
134 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
135 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
136 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
140 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
142 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
143 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
144 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
145 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
146 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
147 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
148 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
149 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
153 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
159 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
162 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
163 may need to disable this.
164 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
165 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
166 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
167 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
171 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
173 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
174 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
175 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
179 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
181 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
182 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
183 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
185 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
186 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
187 to dh. Closes: #643069
188 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
189 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
193 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
195 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
196 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
197 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
198 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
199 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
201 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
202 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
203 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
205 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
206 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
207 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
208 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
209 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
210 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
211 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
212 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
213 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
214 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
215 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
216 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
217 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
218 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
219 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
223 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
225 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
230 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
232 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
233 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
235 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
241 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
243 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
244 Use override targets instead.
245 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
246 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
247 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
248 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
249 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
250 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
251 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
252 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
253 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
254 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
259 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
261 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
262 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
266 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
272 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
274 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
275 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
276 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
277 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
278 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
279 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
280 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
284 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
286 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
287 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
288 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
289 the targets. Closes: #629139
290 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
291 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
292 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
293 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
294 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
295 are already set to other values will not be changed.
297 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
298 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
299 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
300 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
301 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
306 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
308 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
312 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
314 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
315 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
316 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
320 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
322 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
323 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
324 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
325 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
326 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
327 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
328 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
329 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
334 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
338 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
339 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
341 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
342 changes may be added to that mode.
343 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
344 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
345 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
346 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
347 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
348 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
349 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
350 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
351 * Removed old example rules files.
352 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
356 * update french translation.
357 * Fix french misspelling.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
361 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
364 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
368 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
371 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
372 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
373 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
374 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
375 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
376 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
377 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
381 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
384 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
385 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
386 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
387 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
388 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
389 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
391 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
392 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
393 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
394 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
395 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
396 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
397 (Thanks, David Prévot)
398 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
399 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
400 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
401 target fails. Closes: #601037
402 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
404 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
405 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
406 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
407 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
408 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
410 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
411 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
413 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
414 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
415 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
417 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
419 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
422 * update french translation.
423 * Fix french misspelling.
424 * French translation update after massive man page typography
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
428 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
431 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
434 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
438 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
440 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
444 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
446 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
447 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
448 introduced by the fix to #527990.
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
452 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
454 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
455 changes are planned for that mode.
456 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
457 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
458 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
459 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
460 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
461 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
462 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
463 (genesis) still uses them.
464 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
465 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
466 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
467 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
468 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
469 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
470 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
471 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
472 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
473 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
474 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
475 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
476 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
477 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
478 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
479 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
480 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
481 commands. (See #570039)
482 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
484 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
489 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
493 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
494 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
495 in control file or debhelper config files.
496 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
500 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
502 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
503 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
504 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
508 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
511 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
515 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
517 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
518 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
519 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
523 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Updated French translation.
526 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
527 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
528 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
529 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
531 * Typo. Closes: #571968
532 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
533 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
534 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
535 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
536 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
537 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
538 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
539 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
540 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
542 * dh: Improve documentation.
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
546 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
548 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
549 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
550 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
554 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
556 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
557 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
561 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
563 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
564 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
568 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
571 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
572 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
573 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
574 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
575 options that they do not support.
576 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
577 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
578 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
579 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
580 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
581 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
586 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
588 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
590 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
591 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
592 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
593 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
594 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
595 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
596 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
597 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
598 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
602 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
605 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
606 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
607 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
608 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
612 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
614 * Typo. Closes: #558654
615 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
616 installed. Closes: #558782
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
620 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
622 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
623 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
624 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
625 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
626 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
627 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
631 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
633 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
634 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
635 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
636 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
640 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
643 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
644 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
648 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
650 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
654 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
656 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
657 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
658 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
659 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
660 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
661 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
662 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
663 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
664 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
665 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
666 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
667 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
668 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
669 time soon.) Closes: #554509
670 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
672 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
673 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
674 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
675 document id. Closes: #555677
676 * Typo. Closes: #555659
677 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
678 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
679 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
680 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
682 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
683 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
684 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
689 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
692 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
693 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
694 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
695 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
696 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
697 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
698 translation (#494300 part 2)
701 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
703 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
704 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
705 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
706 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
707 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
711 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
714 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
715 (It was only run once due to logging.)
716 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
717 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
718 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
719 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
720 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
721 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
722 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
723 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
724 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
725 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
729 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
732 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
733 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
736 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
737 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
741 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
743 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
744 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
745 flag with arch all/any packages.
746 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
747 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
748 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
749 situation. Closes: #540794
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
753 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
755 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
757 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
758 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
759 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
760 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
761 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
764 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
765 the default. Closes: #538201
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
770 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
774 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
775 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
776 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
777 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
778 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
780 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
781 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
782 * Above Closes: #491117
783 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
788 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
791 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
794 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
795 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
796 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
800 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
803 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
804 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
805 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
806 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
807 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
812 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
814 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
815 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
816 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
820 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
822 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
826 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
828 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
829 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
831 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
832 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
833 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
837 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
839 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
840 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
844 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
846 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
850 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
852 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
853 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
854 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
859 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
861 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
865 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
868 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
869 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
870 created by using `python' first during build and install.
872 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
877 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
879 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
883 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
885 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
886 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
890 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
892 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
896 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
898 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
902 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
904 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
905 contributed by Modestas Vainius
906 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
907 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
908 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
909 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
910 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
911 that support it. Closes: #480577
912 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
913 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
914 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
916 - Adds support for cmake.
917 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
918 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
920 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
922 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
923 that use them. The options are:
924 --sourcedir, --destdir
925 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
926 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
927 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
928 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
929 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
933 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
935 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
939 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
942 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
943 default. Closes: #537140
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
947 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
950 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
951 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
955 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
958 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
962 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
964 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
965 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
969 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
971 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
972 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
974 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
975 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
976 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
980 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
983 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
984 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
985 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
989 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
992 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
993 warning or deprecation message.
994 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
995 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
996 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
997 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
998 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
999 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
1000 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
1001 Closes: #534639, #357434
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
1005 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
1011 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
1014 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
1015 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
1016 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
1017 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
1019 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
1020 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
1021 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
1025 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
1031 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
1038 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
1041 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
1045 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
1049 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
1050 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
1052 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
1053 file support. Closes: #494914
1054 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
1058 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
1061 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
1062 parameters. Closes: #527256
1063 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
1064 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
1065 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
1069 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
1072 (Patch from #459548)
1073 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
1074 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
1075 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1079 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1082 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1083 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1084 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1088 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1091 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1092 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1094 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1095 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1096 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1100 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1104 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1108 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1111 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1112 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1113 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1114 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1119 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1125 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1128 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1129 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1130 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1131 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1132 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1134 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1135 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1136 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1137 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1138 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1139 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1143 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1146 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1147 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1148 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1149 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1150 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1152 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1156 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1158 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1162 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1164 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1165 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1166 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1167 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1168 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1169 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1170 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1171 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1172 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1173 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1174 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1178 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1180 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1181 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1183 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1184 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1185 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1186 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1188 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1189 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1193 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1195 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1196 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1197 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1198 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1199 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1200 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1201 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1203 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1204 that uses them. Affected options are:
1205 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1206 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1207 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1208 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1209 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1210 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1211 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1212 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1213 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1214 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1215 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1216 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1220 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1227 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1233 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1236 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1238 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1239 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1240 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1241 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1242 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1243 than the old method.
1244 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1246 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1247 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1248 rules (see bug #509756).
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1252 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1258 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1259 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1260 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1261 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1265 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1268 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1269 empty files. Closes: #490937
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1273 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1279 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1286 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1289 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1290 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1291 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1292 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1297 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1299 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1300 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1301 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1302 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1306 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1309 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1310 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1311 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1312 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1313 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1317 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1324 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1327 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1328 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1329 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1330 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1331 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1332 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1333 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1334 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1335 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1339 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1342 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1343 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1344 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1345 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1347 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1348 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1349 breaking backwards compatibility.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1353 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1356 message in perl 5.10.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1360 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1366 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1369 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1373 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1376 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1380 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1383 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1384 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1385 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1386 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1387 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1388 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1389 logging by dh_listpackages.
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1393 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1396 run and there are no packages of that type.
1397 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1398 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1399 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1400 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1402 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1403 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1407 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1410 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1411 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1415 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1418 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1419 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1421 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1422 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1423 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1424 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1425 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1426 planned but not yet implemented.)
1427 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1428 if the Makefile has such a target.
1429 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1430 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1431 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1432 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1433 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1434 but not yet implemented.)
1435 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1436 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1437 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1438 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1439 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1441 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1443 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1444 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1446 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1447 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1448 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1453 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1456 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1457 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1461 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1463 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1464 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1465 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1469 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1475 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1481 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1484 just those installed by the program.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1488 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1491 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1492 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1496 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1499 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1500 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1501 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1502 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1506 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1509 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1510 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1514 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1517 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1518 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1522 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1525 with policy. Closes: #461392
1526 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1527 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1528 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1529 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1530 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1534 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1537 Closes: #460340, #460351
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1541 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1544 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1545 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1546 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1547 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1551 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1554 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1555 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1556 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1557 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1558 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1559 package build directory won't work.
1560 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1561 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1562 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1563 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1564 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1565 mode. Closes: #459426
1566 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1571 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1574 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1578 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1582 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1583 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1584 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1585 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1586 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1587 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1591 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1594 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1595 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1596 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1597 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1601 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1604 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1605 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1606 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1607 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1608 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1612 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1615 debian/package.triggers files.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1619 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1622 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1626 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1629 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1630 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1631 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1632 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1637 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1640 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1644 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1647 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1648 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1650 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1655 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1659 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1660 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1661 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1665 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1672 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1679 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1682 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1684 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1685 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1686 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1688 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1689 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1690 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1694 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1697 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1698 * Update urls to web page.
1699 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1700 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1701 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1702 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1706 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1709 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1710 - typo in alternatives call
1711 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1713 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1714 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1718 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1721 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1726 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1732 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1738 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1741 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1743 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1744 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1745 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1746 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1747 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1748 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1749 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1750 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1751 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1752 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1753 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1757 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1760 package install. Closes: #415717
1761 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1762 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1763 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1764 script and then remove the python files.
1765 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1766 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1767 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1768 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1769 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1770 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1771 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1772 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1773 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1774 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1775 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1776 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1777 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1781 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Correct typo in french translation
1787 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1788 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1790 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1792 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1793 Closes: #406921, #381940
1794 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1796 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1797 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1798 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1799 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1800 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1801 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1802 specified). Closes: #381851
1803 * Misc minor changes.
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1807 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1814 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1815 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1819 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1825 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1826 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1829 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1830 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1832 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1833 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1834 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1835 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1839 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1842 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1845 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1849 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1855 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1861 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1862 a difficult situation.
1863 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1864 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1865 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1866 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1867 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1868 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1869 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1870 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1871 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1872 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1876 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * Non-maintainer upload.
1879 * Update of dh_python
1880 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1881 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1883 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1884 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1885 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1886 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1887 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1889 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1891 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Non-maintainer upload.
1894 * Update of dh_python
1895 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1896 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1897 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1898 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1899 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1900 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1901 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1902 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1903 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1904 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1906 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1907 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1908 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1909 the not too-distant future).
1910 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1911 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1912 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1913 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1914 thus made the build fail.
1916 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1918 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Non-maintainer upload.
1921 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1923 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1925 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1928 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1929 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1930 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1931 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1932 package. Closes: #301424
1933 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1934 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1935 fonts). Closes: #372686
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1939 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1945 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1946 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1947 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1948 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1949 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1950 above, but already depends on that.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1954 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1957 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1958 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1959 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1960 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1961 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1965 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1971 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1977 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1978 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1982 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1985 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1989 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1993 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1994 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1995 new version (0.24.1).
1996 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1997 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
2000 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
2001 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
2002 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
2003 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
2004 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
2005 new directory on their own.
2006 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
2007 * Fix broken directory removal code.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
2011 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
2014 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
2015 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
2016 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
2017 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
2021 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
2024 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
2025 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
2026 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
2027 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
2028 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
2032 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
2038 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * Typo. Closes: #358904
2042 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
2043 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
2047 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2048 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
2052 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
2054 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
2055 || exit 0 instead of the intended
2057 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
2058 ignored. Closes: #337664
2060 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
2065 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
2071 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
2076 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
2077 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2078 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2079 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2080 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2081 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2082 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2086 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2089 version. Closes: #350607
2090 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2091 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2092 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2093 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2097 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2100 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2101 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2102 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2106 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2113 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2119 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2122 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2126 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2129 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2130 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2131 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2132 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2133 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2134 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2138 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2141 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2142 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2147 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2150 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2154 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2157 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2161 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2164 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2165 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2166 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2167 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2168 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2169 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2173 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2177 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2178 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2179 link. Closes: #346405
2180 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2182 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2183 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2184 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2185 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2186 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2187 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2188 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2192 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2199 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2205 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2208 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2212 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2215 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2220 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2224 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2225 installed. Closes: #342033
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2229 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2232 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2233 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2234 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2239 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2245 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2251 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2255 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2256 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2257 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2261 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2264 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2269 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2276 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2282 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2285 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2286 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2287 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2288 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2289 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2290 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2291 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2293 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2297 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2300 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2301 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2305 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2308 in standard man dirs.
2309 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2313 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2319 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2322 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2327 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2334 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2341 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2344 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2345 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2349 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2352 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2353 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2354 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2356 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2358 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2364 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2370 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2373 mode. Closes: #324161
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2377 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2380 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2381 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2382 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2383 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2388 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2391 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2392 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2393 is necesary for sanity.
2394 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2395 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2400 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2402 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2403 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2407 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2410 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2414 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2420 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2423 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2424 released, so use at your own risk.
2425 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2426 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2428 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2429 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2430 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2431 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2432 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2433 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2434 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2435 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2436 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2437 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2438 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2439 including twice per config file line now..
2440 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2441 and simplfy the rules file.
2442 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2443 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2444 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2446 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2447 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2451 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2454 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2458 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2461 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2465 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2468 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2472 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2475 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2476 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2477 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2478 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2479 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2480 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2484 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2487 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2488 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2489 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2494 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2497 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2498 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2503 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2506 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2507 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2508 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2513 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2516 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2517 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2518 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2522 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2528 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2535 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2538 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2539 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2540 unknown. Closes: #282924
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2544 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2551 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * Spanish man page updates.
2554 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2559 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2565 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2568 * dh_desktop: reindent
2569 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2570 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2574 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2580 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2582 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2586 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2588 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2592 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2595 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2596 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2600 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2606 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2612 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2619 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2622 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2626 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2629 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2630 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2631 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2632 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2633 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2634 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2636 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2637 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2638 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2639 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2640 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2641 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2642 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2643 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2644 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2645 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2646 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2647 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2648 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2649 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2650 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2651 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2655 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2662 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2665 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2669 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2672 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2676 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2679 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2683 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2686 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2690 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2696 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2702 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2708 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2711 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2712 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2713 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2717 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2720 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2724 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2727 but occasionally right and necessary.
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2731 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2734 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2735 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2736 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2737 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2738 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2742 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2745 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2747 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2748 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2749 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2750 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2751 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2752 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2753 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2754 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2755 postinst scripts for udebs.
2756 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2760 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2763 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2765 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2766 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2770 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2776 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2783 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2790 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2793 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2797 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2800 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2804 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2807 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2810 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2811 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2815 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2821 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2824 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2828 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2831 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2832 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2833 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2835 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2837 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2838 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2839 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2843 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2846 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2851 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2854 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2855 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2856 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2861 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2867 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2873 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2876 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2877 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2878 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2879 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2880 associated -dbg packages.
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2884 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2887 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2891 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2894 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2898 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2901 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2905 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2908 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2913 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2916 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2920 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2923 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2928 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2931 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2935 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2939 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2940 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2941 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2942 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2943 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2944 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2945 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2946 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2947 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2948 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2952 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2955 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2960 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2963 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2964 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2968 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2971 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2972 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2977 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2980 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2984 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2987 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2991 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2994 out section number. Closes: #204731
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2998 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
3005 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
3011 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
3017 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * Typo, Closes: #203907
3020 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
3021 removal. Closes: #204286
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
3025 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
3028 renaming. Closes: #203548
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
3032 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
3035 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
3036 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
3040 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
3046 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
3052 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
3058 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
3061 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
3062 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
3063 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
3067 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
3070 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
3071 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
3075 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3081 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3088 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3091 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3096 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3099 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3103 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3106 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3108 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3109 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3113 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3116 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3121 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3124 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3128 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3134 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3136 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3140 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3143 it break hard links (see #188663).
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3147 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3150 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3154 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3160 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3164 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3165 debconf-mergetemplates
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3169 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3172 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3176 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3179 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3183 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3186 * Update debhelper(1).
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3190 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3193 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3194 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3195 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3196 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3197 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3201 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3204 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3205 the shell. Closes: #178524
3206 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3210 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3213 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3217 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3220 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3224 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3227 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3228 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3229 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3230 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3235 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3238 files from installation.
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3242 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3245 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3246 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3250 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3253 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3257 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3260 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3264 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3270 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3276 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3280 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3281 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3283 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3287 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3290 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3291 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3292 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3293 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3297 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3300 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3304 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3307 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3308 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3312 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3316 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3321 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3327 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3331 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3332 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3333 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3338 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3341 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3342 practice. Closes: #163303
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3346 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3352 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3359 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3362 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3364 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3365 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3366 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3367 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3368 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3372 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3375 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3380 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3386 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3393 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3396 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3401 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3407 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3413 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3419 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3426 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3429 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3430 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3431 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3432 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3437 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3443 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3450 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3453 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3454 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3458 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3461 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3462 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3463 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3464 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3465 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3469 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3472 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3474 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3479 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3482 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3486 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3489 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3490 right thing. Closes: #150644
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3494 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * Stupid, evil typo.
3497 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3501 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3508 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3511 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3512 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3517 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3523 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3526 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3530 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3533 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3534 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3539 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3542 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3546 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3552 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3555 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3556 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3560 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3566 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * Removing perl warning message.
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3572 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3575 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3576 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3577 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3578 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3579 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3580 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3581 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3582 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3586 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3592 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3599 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3602 debconf-mergetemplate.
3603 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3604 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3608 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3611 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3612 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3613 dh_install, which ...
3614 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3615 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3616 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3617 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3618 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3619 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3620 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3621 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3622 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3623 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3624 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3625 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3626 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3627 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3628 other minor changes.
3629 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3630 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3631 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3632 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3633 course there's -X ..)
3634 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3635 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3636 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3638 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3639 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3640 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3641 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3642 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3647 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3653 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3656 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3660 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3666 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3672 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3674 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3678 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3684 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3687 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3688 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3689 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3690 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3692 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3693 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3697 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3703 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3706 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3710 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3713 upset. Closes: #131322
3715 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3717 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3720 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3721 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3722 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3723 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3724 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3725 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3726 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3727 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3728 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3729 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3730 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3731 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3732 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3733 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3734 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3736 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3740 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3743 - Better indenting of generated code.
3744 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3748 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3752 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3753 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3754 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3755 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3756 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3757 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3758 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3762 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3765 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3769 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3772 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3773 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3774 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3775 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3776 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3777 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3778 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3779 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3780 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3781 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3782 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3783 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3784 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3785 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3786 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3791 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3797 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3800 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3801 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3805 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3808 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3809 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3813 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3819 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3822 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3823 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3824 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3825 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3826 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3831 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3837 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3840 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3844 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3847 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3852 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3854 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3858 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3860 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3861 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3865 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3871 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3875 Also some indentation fixes.
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3879 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3882 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3883 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3884 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3885 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3886 Closes: #106514, #85520
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3890 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3892 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3896 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3902 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3908 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3910 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3914 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3920 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3923 change it in debhelper v4..
3925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3927 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3929 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3933 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3936 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3940 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3942 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3943 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3947 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3953 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3955 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3956 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3957 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3958 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3959 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3960 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3961 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3962 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3963 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3964 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3965 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3966 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3967 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3971 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3974 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3978 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3985 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3988 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3989 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3990 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3991 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3992 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3993 program those options go to. So, for example,
3994 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3995 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3996 something complex. Closes: #89311
3997 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
4001 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
4004 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
4005 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
4006 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
4010 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
4013 through loop. Closes: #98598
4015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
4017 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4019 * Missing semi-colon.
4020 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
4021 this (dh_* should be called, really).
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
4025 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
4028 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
4029 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
4030 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
4034 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
4037 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
4038 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
4042 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
4045 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
4047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
4049 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4051 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
4052 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
4053 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
4057 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
4060 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
4061 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
4062 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
4066 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
4069 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
4070 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
4071 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
4075 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4078 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4082 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4084 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4088 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4094 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4100 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4106 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4109 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4113 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4116 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4117 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4118 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4119 followed. Closes: #85483
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4123 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4125 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4126 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4127 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4131 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4134 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4135 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4136 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4137 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4138 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4139 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4140 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4141 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4142 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4143 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4144 Closes: #88464, #77743
4145 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4146 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4147 us to deal with that gracefully.
4148 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4150 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4151 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4152 a while, Closes: #51225
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4156 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4162 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4165 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4169 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4171 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4173 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4178 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4181 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4182 don't make packlist files.
4183 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4184 debhelper coding standards.
4185 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4186 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4190 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4192 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4193 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4197 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4200 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4201 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4202 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4203 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4204 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4205 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4206 but is mildly deprecated.
4207 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4208 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4209 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4210 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4211 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4212 switching to statoverrides..
4213 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4214 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4215 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4216 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4217 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4218 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4220 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4221 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4222 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4223 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4224 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4225 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4226 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4227 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4228 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4230 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4231 variable names, pod man pages).
4232 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4233 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4234 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4235 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4236 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4237 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4238 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4242 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4248 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4255 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4258 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4262 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4264 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4265 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4266 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4270 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4272 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4273 they were previously ignored.
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4277 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4279 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4280 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4284 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4286 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4287 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4288 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4292 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4294 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4298 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4300 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4301 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4305 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4307 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4308 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4309 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4310 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4311 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4312 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4313 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4314 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4315 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4316 it is an obsolete program.
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4320 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4322 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4326 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4328 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4330 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4332 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4336 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4338 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4340 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4342 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4346 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4352 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4354 * typo: Closes, #78567
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4358 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4364 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4370 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4373 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4374 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4375 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4376 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4377 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4381 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4383 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4384 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4389 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4392 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4393 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4394 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4395 backwards-compatibility.
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4399 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4402 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4403 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4404 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4405 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4406 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4407 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4409 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4410 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4411 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4413 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4415 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4416 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4417 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4418 should now be raised to severity important..
4419 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4420 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4424 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4427 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4432 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4434 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4438 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4444 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4446 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4450 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4457 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4459 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4460 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4461 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4462 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4463 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4467 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4473 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4476 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4477 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4478 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4479 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4480 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4481 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4486 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4488 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4489 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4493 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4495 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4499 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4501 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4502 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4507 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4509 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4510 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4511 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4512 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4513 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4517 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4519 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4521 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4524 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4527 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4528 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4531 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4533 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4534 the TODO entry about it.
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4538 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4545 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4548 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4549 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4553 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4556 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4557 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4558 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4559 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4563 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4565 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4569 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4576 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4579 (this appears to be logal).
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4583 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4586 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4587 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4588 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4589 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4593 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4599 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4602 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4603 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4604 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4605 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4609 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4611 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4615 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4617 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4618 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4622 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4624 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4629 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4632 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4633 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4634 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4639 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4641 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4646 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4652 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4655 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4656 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4657 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4658 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4659 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4660 notice until v2 is complete.
4661 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
4662 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4663 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4664 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4665 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4666 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4668 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4669 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4670 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4671 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4675 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4677 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4681 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4683 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4688 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4691 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4695 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4697 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4702 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4704 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4705 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4706 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4707 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4708 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4713 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4716 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4717 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4718 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4723 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4726 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4727 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4731 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4734 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4738 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4740 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4741 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4745 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4747 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4752 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4755 depend on the build and install targets.
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4759 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4762 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4766 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4773 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4779 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4785 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4787 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4788 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4789 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4790 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4791 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4792 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4793 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4795 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4796 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4797 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4798 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4799 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4800 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4801 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4805 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4811 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4817 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4820 right place. Closes: #55065
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4824 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4831 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4833 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4834 * Copyright date updates.
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4838 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4841 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4846 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4848 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4852 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4859 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4861 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4865 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4867 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4871 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4873 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4877 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4880 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4881 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4882 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4883 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4884 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4885 bits until all files have been registered.
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4889 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * dh_installmanpages:
4892 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4893 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4894 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4895 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4896 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4897 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4898 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4899 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4900 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4901 otherwise change the result at all.
4903 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4904 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4905 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4906 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4907 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4912 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4914 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4918 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4920 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4921 act on files that don't exist.
4922 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4923 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4924 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4926 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4927 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4928 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4929 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4933 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4935 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4939 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4941 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4945 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4947 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4948 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4952 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4954 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4955 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4957 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4958 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4959 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4963 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4966 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4967 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4968 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4969 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4970 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4971 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4972 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4974 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4976 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4980 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4982 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4987 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4993 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4995 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4999 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5001 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
5002 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
5004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
5006 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5008 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
5010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
5012 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5014 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
5016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
5018 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5020 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
5021 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
5022 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
5023 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
5024 I made some changes, though:
5025 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
5026 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
5027 that is a clear violation of policy.
5028 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
5029 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
5030 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
5031 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
5032 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
5033 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
5034 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
5035 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
5036 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
5038 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
5042 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
5048 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
5051 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
5053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
5055 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5057 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
5058 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
5059 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
5064 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5066 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
5070 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
5075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
5077 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5079 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5080 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5081 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5082 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5083 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5084 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5085 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5086 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5090 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5092 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5096 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5098 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5100 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5101 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5105 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5111 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5113 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5114 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5118 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5120 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5121 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5122 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5126 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5128 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5133 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5135 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5137 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5141 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5143 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5144 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5145 for the dependancies to be generated.
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5149 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5152 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5156 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5159 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5160 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5161 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5166 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5168 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5169 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5170 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5174 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5180 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5182 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5186 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5188 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5189 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5193 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5195 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5199 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5202 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5203 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5204 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5205 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5206 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5207 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5208 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5209 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5210 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5211 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5212 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5213 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5217 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5220 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5221 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5223 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5224 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5225 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5226 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5227 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5228 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5230 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5231 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5235 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5237 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5238 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5242 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5244 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5249 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5252 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5257 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5260 for building debhelper.
5261 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5265 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5267 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5272 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5274 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5275 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5279 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5281 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5282 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5283 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5284 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5285 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5286 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5287 it's always available.
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5291 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5294 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5295 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5296 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5300 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5302 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5303 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5304 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5308 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5310 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5314 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5316 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5317 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5321 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5323 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5327 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5329 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5330 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5331 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5332 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5336 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5339 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5344 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5346 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5347 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5348 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5350 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5351 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5355 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5357 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5361 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5363 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5367 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5369 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5370 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5374 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5377 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5378 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5380 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5384 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5387 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5388 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5389 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5393 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5395 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5396 things if CDPATH is set.
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5400 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5406 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5408 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5409 seems to make sense for the transition.
5411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5413 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5415 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5416 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5421 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5424 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5425 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5429 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5432 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5436 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5439 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5440 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5441 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5442 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5446 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5448 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5452 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5454 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5455 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5456 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5457 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5458 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5459 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5460 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5461 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5462 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5463 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5464 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5469 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5471 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5472 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5473 * README: mention doc/v2
5474 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5475 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5479 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5481 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5482 be using this script RSN.
5484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5486 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5488 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5489 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5490 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5491 more than 1 init script.
5493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5495 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5497 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5498 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5502 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * Changed perl version detection.
5505 * Changed call to find.
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5509 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5511 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5512 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5514 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5519 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * Really include dh_installpam.
5523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5525 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5527 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5528 * Wrote man page for same.
5530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5532 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5534 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5535 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5536 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5541 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5543 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5548 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5550 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5551 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5552 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5553 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5554 x bit was being set!
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5558 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5561 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5562 well. (Closes: 38900)
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5566 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5569 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5570 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5574 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5576 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5580 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5582 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5587 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5589 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5593 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5595 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5596 help from Julian Gilbey.
5597 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5598 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5599 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5600 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5601 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5602 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5603 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5608 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5610 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5614 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5616 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5621 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5627 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5633 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5635 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5636 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5640 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5642 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5643 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5647 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5649 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5650 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5654 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5656 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5660 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5662 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5663 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5667 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5669 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5673 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5675 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5679 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5682 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5683 may be deleted. (#35845)
5685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5687 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5689 * Various man page enhancements.
5690 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5695 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5697 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5698 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5699 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5703 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5705 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5706 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5707 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5708 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5710 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5711 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5716 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5718 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5722 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5724 * Another very minor typo fix.
5726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5728 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5730 * Very minor typo fix.
5732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5734 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5736 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5737 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5738 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5742 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5744 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5748 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5750 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5751 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5752 variables properly (#34850).
5754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5756 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5758 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5762 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5764 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5765 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5766 (automatically generated by build process).
5768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5770 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5772 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5776 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5778 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5779 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5780 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5782 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5786 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5788 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5789 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5793 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5795 * README: minor typo fix.
5797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5799 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5801 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5802 leave it at that. :-)
5804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5806 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5808 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5812 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5814 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5818 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5821 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5822 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5823 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5827 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5829 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5830 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5834 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5836 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5837 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5841 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5843 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5844 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5845 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5846 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5847 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5851 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5853 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5854 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5855 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5856 Craig Small for spotting this.
5858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5860 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5862 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5863 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5864 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5868 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5870 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5874 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5876 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5877 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5881 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5883 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5884 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5885 working on the last version of debhelper.
5887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5889 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5891 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5892 being made. (#23255)
5894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5896 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5898 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5902 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5904 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5905 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5909 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5911 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5912 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5913 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5914 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5915 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5919 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5921 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5922 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5923 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5924 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5925 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5927 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5928 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5930 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5935 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5937 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5941 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5943 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5947 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5949 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5950 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5951 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5952 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5953 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5954 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5955 suidregister actually supports it.
5956 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5957 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5961 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5963 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5968 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5970 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5971 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5972 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5973 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5974 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5975 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5976 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5977 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5981 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5983 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5984 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5988 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5990 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5991 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5992 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5993 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5994 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5998 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
6000 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
6001 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
6003 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
6004 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
6005 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
6006 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
6007 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
6008 effect, either. (#30118)
6010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
6012 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
6014 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
6016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
6018 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
6020 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
6021 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
6022 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
6024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
6026 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
6028 * Spelling and typo fixes.
6030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
6032 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
6034 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
6035 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
6036 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
6037 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
6038 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
6040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
6042 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
6044 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
6045 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
6046 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
6048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
6050 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
6052 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
6054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
6056 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
6058 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
6059 packages, painlessly.
6061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
6063 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
6065 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
6067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
6069 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
6071 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
6073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
6075 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
6077 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6081 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6083 * The perl conversion is complete.
6085 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6087 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6088 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6089 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6094 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6096 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6097 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6098 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6099 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6103 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6105 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6106 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6108 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6110 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6111 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6115 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6117 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6118 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6119 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6123 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6125 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6129 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6131 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6132 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6133 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6134 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6135 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6136 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6140 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6142 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6143 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6144 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6145 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6146 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6150 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6152 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6153 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6157 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6159 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6160 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6161 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6162 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6163 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6164 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6165 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6166 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6167 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6171 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6173 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6177 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6179 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6180 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6181 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6182 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6187 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6189 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6190 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6194 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6196 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6197 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6201 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6203 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6204 sections of shared libraries.
6205 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6206 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6207 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6208 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6209 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6210 things you don't want them to.
6211 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6212 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6216 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6218 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6219 shared libraries. (#26414)
6221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6223 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6225 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6226 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6227 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6228 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6232 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6234 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6236 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6238 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6239 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6240 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6241 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6242 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6246 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6248 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6249 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6253 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6255 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6256 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6257 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6262 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6264 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6265 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6269 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6271 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6272 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6273 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6274 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6275 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6276 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6278 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6279 remove debian/files properly.
6280 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6281 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6282 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6283 * Removed bogus menu file.
6285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6287 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6289 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6290 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6294 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6296 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6297 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6298 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6299 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6300 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6301 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6302 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6306 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6308 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6309 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6310 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6311 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6312 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6316 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6318 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6323 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6325 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6326 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6327 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6329 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6330 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6331 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6332 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6333 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6334 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6338 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6340 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6341 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6342 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6343 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6344 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6345 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6346 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6347 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6348 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6349 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6350 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6351 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6352 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6353 passed any switches.
6354 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6358 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6360 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6361 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6362 at all for a long while.
6363 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6364 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6365 large chunks in the process.
6366 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6367 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6368 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6373 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6375 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6376 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6378 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6383 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6385 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6386 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6387 that don't always have the same files in them.
6388 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6389 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6390 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6394 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6396 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6398 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6399 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6400 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6401 updating 27 man pages.
6402 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6403 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6404 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6405 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6406 programs act on. (#25247)
6408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6410 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6414 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6415 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6416 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6417 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6418 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6419 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6424 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6426 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6431 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6433 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6438 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6440 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6441 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6445 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6447 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6451 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6453 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6454 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6455 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6456 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6457 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6458 package by accident.
6459 * Is version 1.0 next?
6461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6463 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6465 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6466 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6467 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6471 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6473 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6474 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6475 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6476 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6477 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6478 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6480 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6485 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6487 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6488 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6489 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6493 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6495 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6496 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6500 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6502 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6503 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6504 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6509 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6511 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6515 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6517 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6518 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6519 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6524 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6526 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6530 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6532 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6533 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6534 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6535 past week. Thanks, guys!
6537 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6538 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6539 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6540 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6541 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6542 would do in the same situation.
6543 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6544 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6546 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6548 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6549 permissions changed.
6550 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6551 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6552 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6553 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6554 files are treated identically.
6555 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6556 * Minor man page fixes.
6557 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6558 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6559 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6563 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6565 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6566 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6567 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6568 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6569 use -X multiple times, too.
6570 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6571 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6575 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6577 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6578 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6579 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6583 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6585 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6586 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6590 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6592 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6593 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6594 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6595 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6596 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6597 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6598 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6599 shape if you're starting a new package.
6601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6603 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6605 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6606 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6610 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6612 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6613 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6614 because of missing symlinks.
6616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6618 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6620 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6624 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6626 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6627 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6628 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6629 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6630 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6631 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6633 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6634 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6638 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6640 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6641 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6642 to be changed after the fact :-)
6643 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6647 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6649 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6650 no version string after the -V.
6652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6654 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6656 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6657 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6662 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6664 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6665 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6669 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6671 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6672 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6673 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6674 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6675 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6676 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6677 I always welcome corrections!
6679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6681 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6683 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6687 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6689 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6690 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6691 * Documented this new switch.
6693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6695 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6697 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6698 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6699 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6700 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6701 no packages use the old behavior.
6703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6705 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6707 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6708 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6709 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6713 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6715 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6716 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6720 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6722 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6726 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6728 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6729 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6733 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6735 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6736 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6737 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6738 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6742 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6744 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6748 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6750 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6751 into the source package by accident.
6753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6755 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6757 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6758 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6759 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6760 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6761 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6762 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6763 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6768 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6770 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6772 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6773 inspired to implement some of it.
6774 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6778 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6780 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6781 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6785 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6787 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6788 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6789 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6793 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6795 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6796 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6797 have done.) (#17598)
6799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6801 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6803 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6807 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6809 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6813 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6815 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6816 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6820 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6822 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6823 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6824 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6828 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6830 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6831 argument processor in perl.
6832 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6833 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6834 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6835 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6839 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6841 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6842 type directories. (#16933)
6843 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6844 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6845 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6846 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6847 are supported. (#16935)
6848 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6853 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6855 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6856 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6860 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6862 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6864 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6865 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6866 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6867 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6868 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6869 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6873 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6875 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6876 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6877 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6879 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6880 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6881 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6882 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6883 a given package, or -i or -a.
6884 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6885 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6886 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6887 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6888 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6889 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6890 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6891 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6892 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6894 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6895 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6896 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6900 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6902 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6903 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6904 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6909 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6911 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6912 does not have a section.
6914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6916 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6918 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6919 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6920 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6921 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6925 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6927 * Fixed typo #16215.
6929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6931 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6933 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6934 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6935 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6936 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6937 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6938 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6943 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6945 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6946 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6947 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6948 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6953 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6955 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6959 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6961 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6965 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6967 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6968 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6969 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6970 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6971 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6972 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6973 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6977 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6979 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6983 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6985 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6986 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6990 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6992 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6993 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6994 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6995 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6999 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
7001 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
7002 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
7004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
7006 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
7008 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
7010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
7012 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
7014 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
7015 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
7017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
7019 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
7021 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
7022 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
7024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
7026 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
7028 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
7030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
7032 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
7034 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
7035 postinst, postrm, etc.
7037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
7039 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
7041 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
7043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
7045 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
7047 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
7048 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
7049 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
7050 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
7051 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
7052 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
7054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
7056 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
7058 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
7059 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
7060 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
7062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
7064 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
7066 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
7067 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
7069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
7071 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
7073 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
7074 installing package files into.
7075 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7080 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7082 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7084 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7088 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7090 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7094 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7096 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7097 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7101 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7103 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7104 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7105 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7106 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7107 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7111 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7113 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7114 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7115 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7116 multiple binary packages.
7117 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7118 should rebuild them with this version.
7119 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7123 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7125 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7126 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7130 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7132 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7133 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7137 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7139 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7140 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7141 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7142 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7143 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7144 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7145 debian/README.debian.
7146 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7147 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7148 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7149 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7150 in a few situations.)
7152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7154 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7156 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7160 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7162 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7166 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7168 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7169 * Fixed several man pages.
7171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7173 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7175 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7176 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7177 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7181 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7183 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7184 is ready for general use.
7185 * Added man pages for all commands.
7186 * Multiple binary package support.
7187 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7188 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7189 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7191 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7192 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7193 auto-installed as parameters.
7194 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7196 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7199 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7200 the package build directory it is to act on.
7201 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7202 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7203 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7207 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7209 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7210 ready to replace debstd.
7212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400