1 debhelper (9.20120909) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * autoscript() can now be passed a perl sub to run to s/// lines of
4 the script, which avoids problems with using sed, including potentially
5 building too long a sed command-line. This will become the recommended
6 interface in the future; for now it can be used by specific commands
7 such as dh_installxmlcatalogs that encounter the problem.
8 Closes: #665296 Thanks, Marcin Owsiany
9 * Updated Spanish man page translation. Closes: #686291
10 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #685538
11 * Updated French man page translation. Closes: #685560
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:23:10 -0400
15 debhelper (9.20120830) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_installcatalogs: Adjust catalog conffile conversion to avoid
18 dpkg conffile prompt when upgrading from a removed package.
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:04:10 -0400
23 debhelper (9.20120608) unstable; urgency=low
25 * dh: When there's an -indep override target without -arch, or vice versa,
26 avoid acting on packages covered by the override target when running
27 the command for packages not covered by it. Closes: #676462
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:15:48 -0400
31 debhelper (9.20120528) unstable; urgency=low
33 * dh_installcatalogs: Turn /etc/sgml/$package.cat into conffiles
34 and introduce dependency on trigger-based sgml-base. Closes: #477751
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 May 2012 13:40:26 -0400
39 debhelper (9.20120523) unstable; urgency=low
41 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #673629 Thanks, Omar Campagne
42 * Set Multi-Arch: foreign. Closes: #674193
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 May 2012 14:55:48 -0400
46 debhelper (9.20120518) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Fix versioned dependency on dpkg for xz options. Closes: #672895
49 * dh_link: Doc improvement. Closes: #672988
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 May 2012 11:05:03 -0400
53 debhelper (9.20120513) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Improve -v logging. Closes: #672448
56 * dh_builddeb: Build udebs with xz compression, level 1, extreme strategy.
57 This has been chosen to not need any more memory or cpu when uncompressing,
58 while yeilding the best compressions for udebs. Thanks, Philipp Kern.
59 * Depend on a new enough dpkg for above features. Backporters will need
60 to revert these changes.
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 May 2012 13:09:42 -0400
64 debhelper (9.20120509) unstable; urgency=low
66 * dh_installman: Recognize sections from mdoc .Dt entries. Closes: #670210
68 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #671598
69 * dh_install: Reorder documentation for clarity. Closes: #672109
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 May 2012 12:59:15 -0400
73 debhelper (9.20120419) unstable; urgency=low
75 * Fix compat level checking for cmake. Closes: #669181
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:35 -0400
79 debhelper (9.20120418) unstable; urgency=low
81 * cmake: Only pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS in v9.
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:39 -0400
85 debhelper (9.20120417) unstable; urgency=low
87 * cmake: Pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS. Closes: #668813
88 Thanks, Simon Ruderich for the patch and for verifying no affected
89 package is broken by this change.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:29 -0400
93 debhelper (9.20120410) unstable; urgency=low
96 * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891
97 * Conflict with too old automake for AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. Closes: #666901
98 * dh_md5sums: Don't skip DEBIAN directories other than the control files
102 * dh_installinit: rework upstart handling to comply with new policy
103 proposal; packages will ship both an init script and an upstart job,
104 instead of just an upstart job and a symlink to a compat wrapper.
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:51:15 -0400
109 debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low
111 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
112 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
113 Added to interface documentation.
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400
118 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
120 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
124 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
126 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
127 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
128 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
129 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
131 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
132 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
133 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
134 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
135 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
140 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
142 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
143 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
144 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
145 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
146 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
147 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
148 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
152 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
154 * Typo. Closes: #653006
155 * Typo. Closes: #653339
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
159 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
161 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
162 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
163 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
164 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
165 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
166 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
170 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
172 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
173 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
174 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
175 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
176 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
177 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
178 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
179 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
183 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
185 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
189 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
191 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
192 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
193 may need to disable this.
194 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
195 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
196 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
197 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
201 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
203 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
204 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
205 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
209 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
211 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
212 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
213 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
215 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
216 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
217 to dh. Closes: #643069
218 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
219 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
223 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
225 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
226 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
227 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
228 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
229 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
231 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
232 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
233 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
235 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
236 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
237 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
238 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
239 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
240 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
241 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
242 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
243 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
244 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
245 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
246 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
247 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
248 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
249 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
253 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
255 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
260 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
263 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
265 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
271 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
273 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
274 Use override targets instead.
275 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
276 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
277 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
278 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
279 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
280 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
281 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
282 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
283 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
284 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
289 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
292 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
296 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
298 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
302 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
305 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
306 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
307 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
308 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
309 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
310 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
314 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
317 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
318 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
319 the targets. Closes: #629139
320 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
321 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
322 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
323 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
324 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
325 are already set to other values will not be changed.
327 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
328 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
329 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
330 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
331 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
336 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
342 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
345 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
346 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
350 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
353 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
354 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
355 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
356 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
357 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
358 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
359 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
364 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
367 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
368 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
369 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
371 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
372 changes may be added to that mode.
373 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
374 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
375 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
376 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
377 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
378 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
379 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
380 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
381 * Removed old example rules files.
382 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
386 * update french translation.
387 * Fix french misspelling.
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
391 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
394 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
398 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
401 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
402 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
403 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
404 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
405 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
406 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
407 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
411 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
414 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
415 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
416 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
417 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
418 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
419 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
421 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
422 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
423 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
424 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
425 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
426 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
427 (Thanks, David Prévot)
428 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
429 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
430 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
431 target fails. Closes: #601037
432 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
434 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
435 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
436 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
437 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
438 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
440 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
441 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
443 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
444 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
445 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
447 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
449 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
452 * update french translation.
453 * Fix french misspelling.
454 * French translation update after massive man page typography
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
458 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
461 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
464 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
468 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
470 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
474 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
476 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
477 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
478 introduced by the fix to #527990.
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
482 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
484 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
485 changes are planned for that mode.
486 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
487 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
488 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
489 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
490 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
491 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
492 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
493 (genesis) still uses them.
494 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
495 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
496 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
497 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
498 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
499 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
500 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
501 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
502 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
503 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
504 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
505 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
506 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
507 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
508 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
509 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
510 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
511 commands. (See #570039)
512 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
514 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
519 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
521 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
523 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
524 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
525 in control file or debhelper config files.
526 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
530 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
533 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
534 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
538 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
541 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
545 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
547 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
548 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
549 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
553 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Updated French translation.
556 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
557 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
558 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
559 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
561 * Typo. Closes: #571968
562 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
563 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
564 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
565 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
566 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
567 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
568 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
569 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
570 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
572 * dh: Improve documentation.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
576 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
578 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
579 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
580 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
584 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
587 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
591 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
593 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
594 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
598 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
600 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
601 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
602 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
603 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
604 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
605 options that they do not support.
606 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
607 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
608 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
609 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
610 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
611 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
616 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
618 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
620 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
621 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
622 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
623 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
624 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
625 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
626 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
627 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
628 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
632 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
634 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
635 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
636 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
637 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
638 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
642 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Typo. Closes: #558654
645 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
646 installed. Closes: #558782
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
650 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
653 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
654 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
655 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
656 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
657 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
661 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
663 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
664 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
665 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
666 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
670 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
673 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
674 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
678 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
680 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
684 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
686 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
687 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
688 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
689 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
690 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
691 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
692 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
693 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
694 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
695 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
696 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
697 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
698 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
699 time soon.) Closes: #554509
700 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
702 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
703 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
704 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
705 document id. Closes: #555677
706 * Typo. Closes: #555659
707 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
708 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
709 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
710 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
712 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
713 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
714 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
719 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
722 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
723 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
724 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
725 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
726 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
727 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
728 translation (#494300 part 2)
731 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
733 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
734 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
735 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
736 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
737 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
741 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
743 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
744 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
745 (It was only run once due to logging.)
746 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
747 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
748 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
749 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
750 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
751 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
752 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
753 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
754 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
755 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
759 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
762 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
763 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
766 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
767 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
771 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
773 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
774 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
775 flag with arch all/any packages.
776 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
777 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
778 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
779 situation. Closes: #540794
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
783 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
785 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
787 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
788 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
789 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
790 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
791 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
794 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
795 the default. Closes: #538201
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
800 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
804 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
805 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
806 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
807 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
808 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
810 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
811 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
812 * Above Closes: #491117
813 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
818 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
824 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
825 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
826 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
830 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
833 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
834 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
835 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
836 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
837 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
842 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
844 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
845 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
846 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
850 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
852 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
856 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
858 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
859 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
861 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
862 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
863 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
867 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
869 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
870 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
874 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
876 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
880 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
882 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
883 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
884 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
889 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
891 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
895 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
898 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
899 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
900 created by using `python' first during build and install.
902 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
907 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
909 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
913 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
915 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
916 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
920 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
922 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
926 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
928 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
932 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
934 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
935 contributed by Modestas Vainius
936 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
937 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
938 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
939 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
940 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
941 that support it. Closes: #480577
942 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
943 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
944 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
946 - Adds support for cmake.
947 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
948 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
950 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
952 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
953 that use them. The options are:
954 --sourcedir, --destdir
955 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
956 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
957 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
958 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
959 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
963 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
969 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
971 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
972 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
973 default. Closes: #537140
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
977 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
980 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
981 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
985 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
987 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
988 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
992 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
994 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
995 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
999 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
1002 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
1004 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
1005 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
1006 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
1010 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
1013 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
1014 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
1015 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
1019 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
1022 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
1023 warning or deprecation message.
1024 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
1025 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
1026 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
1027 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
1028 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
1029 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
1030 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
1031 Closes: #534639, #357434
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
1035 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
1041 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
1044 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
1045 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
1046 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
1047 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
1049 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
1050 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
1051 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
1055 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
1061 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
1068 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
1071 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
1075 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
1079 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
1080 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
1082 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
1083 file support. Closes: #494914
1084 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
1088 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
1091 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
1092 parameters. Closes: #527256
1093 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
1094 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
1095 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
1099 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
1102 (Patch from #459548)
1103 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
1104 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
1105 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1109 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1112 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1113 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1114 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1118 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1121 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1122 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1124 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1125 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1126 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1130 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1134 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1138 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1141 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1142 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1143 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1144 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1149 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1155 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1158 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1159 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1160 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1161 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1162 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1164 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1165 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1166 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1167 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1168 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1169 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1173 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1176 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1177 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1178 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1179 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1180 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1182 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1186 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1188 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1192 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1194 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1195 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1196 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1197 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1198 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1199 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1200 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1201 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1202 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1203 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1204 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1208 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1210 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1211 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1213 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1214 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1215 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1216 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1218 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1219 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1223 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1225 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1226 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1227 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1228 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1229 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1230 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1231 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1233 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1234 that uses them. Affected options are:
1235 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1236 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1237 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1238 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1239 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1240 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1241 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1242 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1243 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1244 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1245 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1246 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1250 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1257 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1263 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1266 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1268 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1269 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1270 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1271 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1272 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1273 than the old method.
1274 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1276 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1277 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1278 rules (see bug #509756).
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1282 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1288 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1289 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1290 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1291 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1295 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1298 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1299 empty files. Closes: #490937
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1303 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1309 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1316 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1319 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1320 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1321 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1322 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1327 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1329 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1330 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1331 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1332 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1336 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1339 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1340 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1341 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1342 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1343 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1347 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1354 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1357 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1358 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1359 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1360 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1361 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1362 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1363 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1364 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1365 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1369 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1372 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1373 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1374 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1375 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1377 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1378 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1379 breaking backwards compatibility.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1383 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1386 message in perl 5.10.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1390 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1396 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1399 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1403 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1406 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1410 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1413 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1414 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1415 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1416 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1417 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1418 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1419 logging by dh_listpackages.
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1423 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1426 run and there are no packages of that type.
1427 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1428 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1429 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1430 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1432 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1433 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1437 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1440 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1441 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1445 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1448 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1449 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1451 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1452 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1453 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1454 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1455 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1456 planned but not yet implemented.)
1457 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1458 if the Makefile has such a target.
1459 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1460 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1461 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1462 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1463 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1464 but not yet implemented.)
1465 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1466 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1467 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1468 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1469 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1471 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1473 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1474 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1476 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1477 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1478 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1483 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1486 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1487 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1491 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1493 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1494 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1495 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1499 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1505 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1511 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1514 just those installed by the program.
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1518 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1521 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1522 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1526 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1529 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1530 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1531 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1532 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1536 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1539 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1540 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1544 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1547 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1548 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1552 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1555 with policy. Closes: #461392
1556 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1557 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1558 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1559 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1560 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1564 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1567 Closes: #460340, #460351
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1571 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1574 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1575 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1576 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1577 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1581 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1584 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1585 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1586 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1587 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1588 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1589 package build directory won't work.
1590 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1591 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1592 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1593 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1594 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1595 mode. Closes: #459426
1596 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1601 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1604 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1608 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1612 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1613 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1614 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1615 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1616 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1617 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1621 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1624 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1625 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1626 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1627 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1631 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1634 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1635 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1636 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1637 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1638 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1642 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1645 debian/package.triggers files.
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1649 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1652 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1656 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1659 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1660 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1661 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1662 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1667 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1670 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1674 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1677 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1678 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1680 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1685 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1689 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1690 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1691 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1695 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1702 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1709 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1712 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1714 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1715 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1716 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1718 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1719 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1720 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1724 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1727 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1728 * Update urls to web page.
1729 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1730 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1731 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1732 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1736 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1739 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1740 - typo in alternatives call
1741 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1743 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1744 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1748 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1751 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1756 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1762 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1768 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1771 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1773 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1774 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1775 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1776 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1777 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1778 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1779 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1780 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1781 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1782 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1783 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1787 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1790 package install. Closes: #415717
1791 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1792 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1793 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1794 script and then remove the python files.
1795 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1796 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1797 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1798 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1799 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1800 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1801 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1802 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1803 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1804 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1805 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1806 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1807 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1811 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * Correct typo in french translation
1817 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1818 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1820 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1822 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1823 Closes: #406921, #381940
1824 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1826 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1827 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1828 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1829 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1830 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1831 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1832 specified). Closes: #381851
1833 * Misc minor changes.
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1837 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1844 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1845 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1849 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1855 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1856 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1859 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1860 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1862 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1863 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1864 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1865 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1869 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1872 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1875 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1879 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1885 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1891 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1892 a difficult situation.
1893 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1894 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1895 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1896 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1897 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1898 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1899 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1900 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1901 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1902 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1906 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Non-maintainer upload.
1909 * Update of dh_python
1910 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1911 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1913 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1914 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1915 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1916 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1917 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1919 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1921 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Non-maintainer upload.
1924 * Update of dh_python
1925 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1926 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1927 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1928 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1929 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1930 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1931 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1932 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1933 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1934 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1936 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1937 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1938 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1939 the not too-distant future).
1940 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1941 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1942 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1943 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1944 thus made the build fail.
1946 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1948 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Non-maintainer upload.
1951 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1953 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1955 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1958 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1959 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1960 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1961 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1962 package. Closes: #301424
1963 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1964 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1965 fonts). Closes: #372686
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1969 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1975 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1976 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1977 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1978 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1979 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1980 above, but already depends on that.
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1984 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1987 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1988 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1989 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1990 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1991 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1995 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
2001 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
2007 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
2008 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
2012 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
2015 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
2019 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
2023 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
2024 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
2025 new version (0.24.1).
2026 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
2027 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
2030 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
2031 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
2032 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
2033 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
2034 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
2035 new directory on their own.
2036 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
2037 * Fix broken directory removal code.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
2041 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
2044 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
2045 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
2046 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
2047 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
2051 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
2054 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
2055 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
2056 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
2057 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
2058 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
2062 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
2068 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * Typo. Closes: #358904
2072 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
2073 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
2077 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2078 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
2082 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
2084 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
2085 || exit 0 instead of the intended
2087 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
2088 ignored. Closes: #337664
2090 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
2095 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
2101 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
2106 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
2107 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2108 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2109 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2110 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2111 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2112 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2116 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2119 version. Closes: #350607
2120 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2121 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2122 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2123 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2127 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2130 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2131 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2132 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2136 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2143 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2149 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2152 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2156 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2159 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2160 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2161 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2162 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2163 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2164 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2168 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2171 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2172 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2177 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2180 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2184 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2187 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2191 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2194 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2195 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2196 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2197 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2198 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2199 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2203 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2207 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2208 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2209 link. Closes: #346405
2210 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2212 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2213 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2214 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2215 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2216 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2217 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2218 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2222 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2229 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2235 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2238 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2242 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2245 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2250 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2254 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2255 installed. Closes: #342033
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2259 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2262 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2263 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2264 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2269 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2275 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2281 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2285 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2286 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2287 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2291 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2294 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2299 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2306 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2312 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2315 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2316 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2317 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2318 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2319 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2320 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2321 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2323 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2327 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2330 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2331 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2335 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2338 in standard man dirs.
2339 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2343 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2349 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2352 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2357 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2364 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2371 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2374 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2375 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2379 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2382 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2383 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2384 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2386 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2388 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2394 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2400 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2403 mode. Closes: #324161
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2407 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2410 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2411 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2412 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2413 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2418 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2421 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2422 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2423 is necesary for sanity.
2424 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2425 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2430 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2432 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2433 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2437 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2440 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2444 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2450 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2453 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2454 released, so use at your own risk.
2455 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2456 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2458 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2459 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2460 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2461 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2462 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2463 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2464 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2465 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2466 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2467 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2468 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2469 including twice per config file line now..
2470 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2471 and simplfy the rules file.
2472 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2473 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2474 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2476 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2477 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2481 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2484 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2488 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2491 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2495 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2498 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2502 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2505 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2506 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2507 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2508 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2509 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2510 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2514 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2517 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2518 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2519 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2524 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2527 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2528 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2533 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2536 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2537 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2538 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2543 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2546 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2547 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2548 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2552 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2558 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2565 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2568 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2569 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2570 unknown. Closes: #282924
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2574 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2581 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * Spanish man page updates.
2584 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2589 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2595 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2598 * dh_desktop: reindent
2599 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2600 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2604 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2610 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2612 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2616 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2618 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2622 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2625 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2626 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2630 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2636 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2642 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2649 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2652 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2656 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2659 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2660 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2661 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2662 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2663 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2664 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2666 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2667 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2668 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2669 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2670 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2671 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2672 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2673 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2674 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2675 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2676 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2677 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2678 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2679 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2680 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2681 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2685 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2692 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2695 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2699 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2702 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2706 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2709 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2713 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2716 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2720 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2726 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2732 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2738 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2741 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2742 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2743 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2747 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2750 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2754 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2757 but occasionally right and necessary.
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2761 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2764 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2765 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2766 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2767 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2768 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2772 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2775 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2777 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2778 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2779 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2780 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2781 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2782 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2783 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2784 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2785 postinst scripts for udebs.
2786 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2790 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2793 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2795 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2796 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2800 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2806 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2813 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2820 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2823 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2827 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2830 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2834 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2837 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2840 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2841 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2845 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2851 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2854 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2858 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2861 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2862 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2863 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2865 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2867 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2868 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2869 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2873 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2876 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2881 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2884 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2885 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2886 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2891 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2897 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2903 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2906 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2907 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2908 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2909 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2910 associated -dbg packages.
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2914 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2917 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2921 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2924 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2928 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2931 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2935 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2938 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2943 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2946 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2950 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2953 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2958 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2961 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2965 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2969 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2970 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2971 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2972 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2973 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2974 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2975 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2976 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2977 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2978 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2982 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2985 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2990 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2993 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2994 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2998 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
3001 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
3002 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
3007 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
3010 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
3014 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
3017 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
3021 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
3024 out section number. Closes: #204731
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
3028 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
3035 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
3041 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
3047 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * Typo, Closes: #203907
3050 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
3051 removal. Closes: #204286
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
3055 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
3058 renaming. Closes: #203548
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
3062 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
3065 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
3066 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
3070 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
3076 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
3082 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
3088 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
3091 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
3092 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
3093 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
3097 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
3100 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
3101 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
3105 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3111 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3118 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3121 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3126 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3129 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3133 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3136 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3138 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3139 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3143 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3146 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3151 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3154 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3158 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3164 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3166 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3170 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3173 it break hard links (see #188663).
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3177 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3180 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3184 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3190 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3194 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3195 debconf-mergetemplates
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3199 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3202 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3206 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3209 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3213 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3216 * Update debhelper(1).
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3220 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3223 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3224 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3225 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3226 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3227 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3231 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3234 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3235 the shell. Closes: #178524
3236 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3240 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3243 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3247 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3250 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3254 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3257 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3258 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3259 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3260 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3265 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3268 files from installation.
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3272 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3275 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3276 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3280 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3283 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3287 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3290 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3294 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3300 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3306 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3310 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3311 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3313 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3317 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3320 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3321 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3322 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3323 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3327 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3330 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3334 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3337 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3338 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3342 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3346 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3351 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3357 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3361 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3362 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3363 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3368 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3371 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3372 practice. Closes: #163303
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3376 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3382 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3389 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3392 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3394 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3395 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3396 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3397 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3398 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3402 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3405 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3410 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3416 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3423 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3426 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3431 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3437 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3443 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3449 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3456 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3459 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3460 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3461 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3462 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3467 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3473 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3480 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3483 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3484 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3488 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3491 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3492 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3493 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3494 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3495 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3499 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3502 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3504 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3509 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3512 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3516 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3519 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3520 right thing. Closes: #150644
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3524 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * Stupid, evil typo.
3527 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3531 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3538 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3541 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3542 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3547 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3553 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3556 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3560 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3563 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3564 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3569 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3572 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3576 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3582 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3585 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3586 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3590 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3596 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * Removing perl warning message.
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3602 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3605 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3606 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3607 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3608 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3609 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3610 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3611 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3612 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3616 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3622 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3629 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3632 debconf-mergetemplate.
3633 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3634 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3638 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3641 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3642 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3643 dh_install, which ...
3644 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3645 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3646 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3647 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3648 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3649 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3650 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3651 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3652 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3653 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3654 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3655 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3656 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3657 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3658 other minor changes.
3659 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3660 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3661 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3662 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3663 course there's -X ..)
3664 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3665 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3666 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3668 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3669 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3670 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3671 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3672 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3677 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3683 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3686 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3690 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3696 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3702 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3708 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3714 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3717 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3718 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3719 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3720 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3722 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3723 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3727 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3733 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3736 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3740 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3743 upset. Closes: #131322
3745 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3747 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3749 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3750 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3751 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3752 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3753 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3754 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3755 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3756 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3757 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3758 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3759 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3760 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3761 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3762 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3763 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3764 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3766 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3770 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3773 - Better indenting of generated code.
3774 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3778 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3782 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3783 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3784 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3785 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3786 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3787 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3788 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3792 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3794 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3795 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3799 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3801 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3802 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3803 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3804 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3805 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3806 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3807 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3808 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3809 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3810 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3811 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3812 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3813 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3814 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3815 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3816 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3821 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3827 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3830 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3831 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3835 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3837 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3838 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3839 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3843 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3849 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3852 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3853 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3854 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3855 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3856 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3861 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3863 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3867 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3870 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3874 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3877 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3882 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3888 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3891 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3895 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3901 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3905 Also some indentation fixes.
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3909 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3912 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3913 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3914 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3915 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3916 Closes: #106514, #85520
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3920 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3926 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3932 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3938 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3944 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3950 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3953 change it in debhelper v4..
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3957 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3963 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3966 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3970 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3972 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3973 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3977 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3983 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3985 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3986 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3987 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3988 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3989 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3990 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3991 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3992 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3993 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3994 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3995 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3996 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3997 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
4001 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
4004 look just like shared libs, but are not.
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
4008 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
4015 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
4018 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
4019 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
4020 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
4021 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
4022 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
4023 program those options go to. So, for example,
4024 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
4025 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
4026 something complex. Closes: #89311
4027 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
4031 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
4034 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
4035 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
4036 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
4040 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
4043 through loop. Closes: #98598
4045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
4047 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4049 * Missing semi-colon.
4050 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
4051 this (dh_* should be called, really).
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
4055 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
4058 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
4059 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
4060 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
4064 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4066 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
4067 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
4068 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
4072 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
4075 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
4077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
4079 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4081 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
4082 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
4083 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
4087 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
4090 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
4091 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
4092 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
4096 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4098 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
4099 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
4100 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
4101 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
4105 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4108 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4112 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4114 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4118 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4120 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4124 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4130 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4136 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4139 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4143 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4146 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4147 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4148 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4149 followed. Closes: #85483
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4153 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4155 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4156 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4157 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4161 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4163 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4164 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4165 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4166 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4167 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4168 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4169 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4170 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4171 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4172 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4173 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4174 Closes: #88464, #77743
4175 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4176 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4177 us to deal with that gracefully.
4178 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4180 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4181 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4182 a while, Closes: #51225
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4186 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4192 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4195 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4199 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4203 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4208 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4210 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4211 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4212 don't make packlist files.
4213 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4214 debhelper coding standards.
4215 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4216 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4220 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4222 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4223 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4227 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4229 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4230 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4231 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4232 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4233 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4234 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4235 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4236 but is mildly deprecated.
4237 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4238 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4239 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4240 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4241 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4242 switching to statoverrides..
4243 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4244 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4245 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4246 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4247 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4248 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4250 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4251 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4252 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4253 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4254 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4255 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4256 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4257 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4258 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4260 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4261 variable names, pod man pages).
4262 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4263 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4264 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4265 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4266 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4267 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4268 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4272 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4278 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4285 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4288 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4292 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4294 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4295 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4296 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4300 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4302 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4303 they were previously ignored.
4305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4307 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4309 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4310 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4314 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4316 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4317 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4318 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4322 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4324 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4328 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4330 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4331 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4335 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4337 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4338 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4339 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4340 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4341 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4342 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4343 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4344 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4345 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4346 it is an obsolete program.
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4350 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4352 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4356 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4360 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4362 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4366 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4368 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4370 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4372 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4376 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4382 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4384 * typo: Closes, #78567
4386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4388 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4390 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4394 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4400 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4403 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4404 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4405 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4406 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4407 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4411 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4413 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4414 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4419 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4422 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4423 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4424 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4425 backwards-compatibility.
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4429 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4432 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4433 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4434 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4435 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4436 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4437 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4439 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4440 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4441 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4443 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4445 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4446 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4447 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4448 should now be raised to severity important..
4449 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4450 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4454 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4457 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4462 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4468 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4474 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4480 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4487 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4489 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4490 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4491 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4492 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4493 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4497 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4499 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4503 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4506 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4507 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4508 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4509 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4510 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4511 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4516 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4519 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4523 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4525 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4529 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4532 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4537 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4540 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4541 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4542 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4543 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4547 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4551 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4554 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4557 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4558 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4561 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4563 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4564 the TODO entry about it.
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4568 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4575 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4578 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4579 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4583 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4586 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4587 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4588 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4589 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4593 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4599 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4606 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4608 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4609 (this appears to be logal).
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4613 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4616 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4617 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4618 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4619 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4623 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4629 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4632 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4633 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4634 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4635 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4639 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4641 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4645 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4647 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4648 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4652 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4659 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4662 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4663 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4664 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4669 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4671 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4676 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4682 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4685 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4686 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4687 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4688 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4689 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4690 notice until v2 is complete.
4691 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
4692 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4693 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4694 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4695 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4696 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4698 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4699 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4700 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4701 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4705 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4711 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4713 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4718 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4720 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4721 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4725 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4727 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4732 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4734 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4735 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4736 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4737 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4738 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4743 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4745 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4746 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4747 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4748 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4753 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4755 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4756 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4757 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4761 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4763 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4764 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4768 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4771 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4775 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4777 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4782 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4785 depend on the build and install targets.
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4789 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4792 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4796 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4798 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4803 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4809 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4811 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4815 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4817 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4818 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4819 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4820 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4821 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4822 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4823 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4825 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4826 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4827 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4828 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4829 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4830 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4831 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4835 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4841 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4843 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4847 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4850 right place. Closes: #55065
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4854 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4861 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4864 * Copyright date updates.
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4868 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4871 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4876 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4882 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4889 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4895 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4901 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4907 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4910 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4911 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4912 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4913 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4914 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4915 bits until all files have been registered.
4917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4919 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4921 * dh_installmanpages:
4922 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4923 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4924 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4925 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4926 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4927 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4928 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4929 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4930 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4931 otherwise change the result at all.
4933 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4934 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4935 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4936 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4937 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4942 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4944 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4948 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4950 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4951 act on files that don't exist.
4952 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4953 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4954 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4956 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4957 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4958 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4959 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4963 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4969 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4971 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4975 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4977 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4978 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4982 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4985 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4987 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4988 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4989 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4993 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4995 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4996 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4997 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4998 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4999 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
5000 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
5001 does not compress. Closes: #41733
5002 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
5004 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
5006 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
5010 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
5015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
5017 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5019 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
5023 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
5029 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
5032 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
5036 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
5042 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
5048 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
5051 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
5052 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
5053 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
5054 I made some changes, though:
5055 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
5056 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
5057 that is a clear violation of policy.
5058 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
5059 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
5060 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
5061 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
5062 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
5063 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
5064 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
5065 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
5066 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
5068 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
5072 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
5078 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5080 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
5081 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
5085 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
5088 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
5089 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
5094 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
5098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
5100 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5102 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
5107 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5110 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5111 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5112 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5113 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5114 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5115 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5116 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5120 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5122 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5126 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5130 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5131 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5135 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5137 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5141 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5143 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5144 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5148 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5150 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5151 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5152 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5156 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5158 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5163 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5165 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5167 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5171 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5174 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5175 for the dependancies to be generated.
5177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5179 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5181 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5182 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5186 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5188 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5189 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5190 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5191 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5196 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5198 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5199 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5200 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5204 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5206 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5210 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5212 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5216 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5218 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5219 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5223 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5229 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5231 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5232 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5233 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5234 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5235 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5236 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5237 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5238 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5239 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5240 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5241 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5242 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5243 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5247 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5249 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5250 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5251 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5253 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5254 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5255 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5256 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5257 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5258 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5260 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5261 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5265 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5267 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5268 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5272 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5274 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5279 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5281 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5282 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5287 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5289 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5290 for building debhelper.
5291 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5295 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5302 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5304 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5305 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5309 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5311 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5312 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5313 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5314 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5315 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5316 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5317 it's always available.
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5321 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5323 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5324 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5325 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5326 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5330 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5332 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5333 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5334 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5338 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5340 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5344 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5346 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5347 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5351 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5357 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5359 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5360 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5361 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5362 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5366 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5368 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5369 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5374 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5377 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5378 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5380 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5381 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5385 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5387 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5391 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5397 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5400 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5404 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5407 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5408 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5410 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5414 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5417 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5418 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5419 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5423 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5425 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5426 things if CDPATH is set.
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5430 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5432 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5436 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5439 seems to make sense for the transition.
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5443 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5446 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5451 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5453 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5454 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5455 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5459 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5461 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5462 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5466 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5468 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5469 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5470 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5471 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5472 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5476 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5482 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5484 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5485 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5486 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5487 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5488 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5489 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5490 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5491 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5492 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5493 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5494 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
5497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5499 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5501 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5502 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5503 * README: mention doc/v2
5504 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5505 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5509 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5511 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5512 be using this script RSN.
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5516 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5518 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5519 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5520 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5521 more than 1 init script.
5523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5525 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5527 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5528 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5532 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5534 * Changed perl version detection.
5535 * Changed call to find.
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5539 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5542 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5544 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5549 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5551 * Really include dh_installpam.
5553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5555 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5557 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5558 * Wrote man page for same.
5560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5562 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5564 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5565 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5566 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5571 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5578 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5581 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5582 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5583 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5584 x bit was being set!
5586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5588 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5590 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5591 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5592 well. (Closes: 38900)
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5596 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5598 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5599 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5600 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5604 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5610 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5612 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5617 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5619 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5623 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5625 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5626 help from Julian Gilbey.
5627 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5628 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5629 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5630 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5631 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5632 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5633 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5638 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5640 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5644 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5646 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5651 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5657 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5663 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5666 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5670 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5673 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5677 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5679 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5680 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5684 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5686 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5690 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5692 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5693 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5697 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5699 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5703 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5705 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5709 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5711 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5712 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5713 may be deleted. (#35845)
5715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5717 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5719 * Various man page enhancements.
5720 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5725 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5727 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5728 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5729 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5733 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5735 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5736 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5737 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5738 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5740 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5741 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5746 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5748 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5752 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5754 * Another very minor typo fix.
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5758 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * Very minor typo fix.
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5764 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5767 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5768 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5772 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5774 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5778 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5780 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5781 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5782 variables properly (#34850).
5784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5786 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5788 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5792 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5794 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5795 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5796 (automatically generated by build process).
5798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5800 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5802 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5806 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5808 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5809 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5810 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5812 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5816 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5818 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5819 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5823 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5825 * README: minor typo fix.
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5829 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5831 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5832 leave it at that. :-)
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5836 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5838 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5842 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5844 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5848 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5850 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5851 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5852 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5853 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5857 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5859 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5860 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5864 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5866 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5867 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5871 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5873 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5874 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5875 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5876 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5877 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5881 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5883 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5884 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5885 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5886 Craig Small for spotting this.
5888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5890 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5892 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5893 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5894 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5898 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5900 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5904 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5906 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5907 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5911 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5913 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5914 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5915 working on the last version of debhelper.
5917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5919 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5921 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5922 being made. (#23255)
5924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5926 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5928 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5932 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5934 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5935 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5939 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5941 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5942 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5943 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5944 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5945 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5949 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5951 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5952 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5953 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5954 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5955 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5957 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5958 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5960 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5965 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5967 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5971 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5973 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5977 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5979 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5980 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5981 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5982 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5983 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5984 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5985 suidregister actually supports it.
5986 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5987 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5991 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5993 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5998 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
6000 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
6001 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
6002 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
6003 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
6004 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
6005 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
6006 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
6007 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
6009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
6011 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
6013 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
6014 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
6016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
6018 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
6020 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
6021 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
6022 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
6023 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
6024 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
6026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
6028 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
6030 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
6031 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
6033 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
6034 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
6035 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
6036 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
6037 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
6038 effect, either. (#30118)
6040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
6042 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
6044 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
6046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
6048 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
6050 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
6051 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
6052 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
6054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
6056 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
6058 * Spelling and typo fixes.
6060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
6062 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
6064 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
6065 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
6066 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
6067 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
6068 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
6070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
6072 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
6074 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
6075 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
6076 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
6078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
6080 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
6082 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
6084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
6086 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
6088 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
6089 packages, painlessly.
6091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
6093 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
6095 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
6097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
6099 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
6101 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
6103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
6105 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
6107 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6111 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6113 * The perl conversion is complete.
6115 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6117 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6118 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6119 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6124 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6126 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6127 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6128 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6129 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6133 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6135 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6136 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6138 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6140 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6141 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6145 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6147 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6148 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6149 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6153 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6155 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6159 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6161 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6162 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6163 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6164 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6165 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6166 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6170 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6172 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6173 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6174 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6175 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6176 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6180 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6182 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6183 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6187 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6189 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6190 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6191 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6192 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6193 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6194 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6195 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6196 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6197 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6201 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6203 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6207 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6209 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6210 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6211 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6212 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6217 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6219 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6220 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6224 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6226 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6227 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6231 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6233 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6234 sections of shared libraries.
6235 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6236 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6237 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6238 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6239 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6240 things you don't want them to.
6241 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6242 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6246 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6248 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6249 shared libraries. (#26414)
6251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6253 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6255 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6256 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6257 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6258 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6262 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6264 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6266 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6268 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6269 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6270 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6271 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6272 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6276 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6278 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6279 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6283 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6285 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6286 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6287 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6292 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6294 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6295 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6299 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6301 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6302 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6303 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6304 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6305 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6306 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6308 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6309 remove debian/files properly.
6310 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6311 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6312 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6313 * Removed bogus menu file.
6315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6317 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6319 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6320 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6324 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6326 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6327 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6328 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6329 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6330 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6331 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6332 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6336 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6338 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6339 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6340 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6341 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6342 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6346 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6348 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6353 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6355 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6356 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6357 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6359 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6360 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6361 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6362 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6363 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6364 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6368 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6370 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6371 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6372 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6373 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6374 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6375 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6376 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6377 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6378 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6379 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6380 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6381 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6382 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6383 passed any switches.
6384 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6388 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6390 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6391 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6392 at all for a long while.
6393 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6394 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6395 large chunks in the process.
6396 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6397 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6398 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6403 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6405 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6406 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6408 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6413 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6415 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6416 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6417 that don't always have the same files in them.
6418 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6419 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6420 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6424 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6426 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6428 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6429 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6430 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6431 updating 27 man pages.
6432 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6433 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6434 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6435 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6436 programs act on. (#25247)
6438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6440 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6444 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6445 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6446 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6447 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6448 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6449 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6454 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6456 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6461 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6463 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6468 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6470 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6471 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6475 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6477 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6481 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6483 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6484 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6485 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6486 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6487 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6488 package by accident.
6489 * Is version 1.0 next?
6491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6493 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6495 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6496 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6497 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6501 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6503 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6504 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6505 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6506 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6507 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6508 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6510 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6515 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6517 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6518 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6519 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6523 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6525 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6526 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6530 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6532 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6533 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6534 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6539 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6541 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6545 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6547 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6548 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6549 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6554 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6556 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6560 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6562 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6563 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6564 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6565 past week. Thanks, guys!
6567 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6568 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6569 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6570 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6571 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6572 would do in the same situation.
6573 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6574 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6576 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6578 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6579 permissions changed.
6580 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6581 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6582 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6583 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6584 files are treated identically.
6585 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6586 * Minor man page fixes.
6587 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6588 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6589 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6593 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6595 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6596 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6597 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6598 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6599 use -X multiple times, too.
6600 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6601 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6605 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6607 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6608 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6609 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6613 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6615 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6616 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6620 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6622 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6623 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6624 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6625 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6626 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6627 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6628 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6629 shape if you're starting a new package.
6631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6633 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6635 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6636 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6640 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6642 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6643 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6644 because of missing symlinks.
6646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6648 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6650 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6654 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6656 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6657 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6658 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6659 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6660 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6661 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6663 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6664 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6668 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6670 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6671 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6672 to be changed after the fact :-)
6673 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6677 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6679 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6680 no version string after the -V.
6682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6684 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6686 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6687 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6692 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6694 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6695 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6699 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6701 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6702 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6703 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6704 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6705 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6706 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6707 I always welcome corrections!
6709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6711 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6713 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6717 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6719 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6720 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6721 * Documented this new switch.
6723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6725 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6727 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6728 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6729 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6730 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6731 no packages use the old behavior.
6733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6735 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6737 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6738 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6739 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6743 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6745 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6746 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6750 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6752 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6756 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6758 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6759 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6763 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6765 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6766 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6767 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6768 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6772 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6774 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6778 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6780 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6781 into the source package by accident.
6783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6785 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6787 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6788 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6789 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6790 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6791 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6792 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6793 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6798 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6800 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6802 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6803 inspired to implement some of it.
6804 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6808 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6810 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6811 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6815 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6817 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6818 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6819 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6823 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6825 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6826 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6827 have done.) (#17598)
6829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6831 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6833 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6837 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6839 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6843 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6845 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6846 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6850 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6852 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6853 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6854 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6858 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6860 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6861 argument processor in perl.
6862 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6863 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6864 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6865 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6869 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6871 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6872 type directories. (#16933)
6873 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6874 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6875 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6876 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6877 are supported. (#16935)
6878 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6883 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6885 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6886 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6890 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6892 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6894 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6895 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6896 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6897 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6898 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6899 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6903 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6905 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6906 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6907 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6909 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6910 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6911 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6912 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6913 a given package, or -i or -a.
6914 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6915 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6916 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6917 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6918 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6919 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6920 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6921 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6922 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6924 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6925 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6926 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6930 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6932 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6933 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6934 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6939 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6941 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6942 does not have a section.
6944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6946 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6948 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6949 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6950 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6951 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6955 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6957 * Fixed typo #16215.
6959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6961 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6963 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6964 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6965 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6966 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6967 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6968 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6973 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6975 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6976 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6977 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6978 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6983 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6985 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6989 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6991 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6995 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6997 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6998 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6999 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
7000 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
7001 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
7002 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
7003 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
7005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
7007 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
7009 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
7011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
7013 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
7015 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
7016 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
7018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
7020 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
7022 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
7023 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
7024 the dh_* programs (#15497).
7025 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
7027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
7029 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
7031 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
7032 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
7034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
7036 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
7038 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
7040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
7042 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
7044 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
7045 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
7047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
7049 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
7051 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
7052 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
7054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
7056 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
7058 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
7060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
7062 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
7064 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
7065 postinst, postrm, etc.
7067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
7069 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
7071 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
7073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
7075 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
7077 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
7078 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
7079 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
7080 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
7081 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
7082 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
7084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
7086 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
7088 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
7089 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
7090 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
7092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
7094 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
7096 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
7097 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
7099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
7101 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
7103 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
7104 installing package files into.
7105 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7110 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7112 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7114 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7118 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7120 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7124 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7126 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7127 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7131 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7133 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7134 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7135 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7136 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7137 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7141 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7143 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7144 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7145 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7146 multiple binary packages.
7147 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7148 should rebuild them with this version.
7149 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7153 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7155 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7156 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7160 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7162 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7163 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7167 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7169 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7170 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7171 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7172 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7173 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7174 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7175 debian/README.debian.
7176 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7177 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7178 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7179 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7180 in a few situations.)
7182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7184 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7186 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7190 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7192 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7196 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7198 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7199 * Fixed several man pages.
7201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7203 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7205 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7206 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7207 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7211 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7213 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7214 is ready for general use.
7215 * Added man pages for all commands.
7216 * Multiple binary package support.
7217 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7218 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7219 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7221 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7222 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7223 auto-installed as parameters.
7224 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7226 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7229 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7230 the package build directory it is to act on.
7231 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7232 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7233 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7237 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7239 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7240 ready to replace debstd.
7242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400