1 debhelper (9.20120609) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_shlibdeps: Warn if -V flag is passed, to avoid it accidentially being
4 used here rather than in dh_makeshlibs. Closes: #680339
5 * dh_lintian: Source overrides doc improvement. Closes: #683941
6 * dh_installmime: No longer makes maintainer scripts run update-mime and
7 update-mime-database, that is now handled by triggers. Closes: #684689
9 * python distutils buildsystem: Propigate failure of pyversions.
10 Closes: #683551 Thanks, Clint Byrum
11 * python distutils buildsystem: When checking if a version of python is
12 installed, don't trust the presense of the executable, as
13 a python2.X-minimal package may provide it while not having
14 distutils installed. Closes: #683557
15 * dh_icons: Improve documentation. Closes: #684895
16 * Improve -X documentation. Closes: #686696
17 * Support installing multiple doc-base files which use the same doc-id.
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:51:07 -0600
22 debhelper (9.20120909) unstable; urgency=low
24 * autoscript() can now be passed a perl sub to run to s/// lines of
25 the script, which avoids problems with using sed, including potentially
26 building too long a sed command-line. This will become the recommended
27 interface in the future; for now it can be used by specific commands
28 such as dh_installxmlcatalogs that encounter the problem.
29 Closes: #665296 Thanks, Marcin Owsiany
30 * Updated Spanish man page translation. Closes: #686291
31 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #685538
32 * Updated French man page translation. Closes: #685560
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:54:06 -0400
36 debhelper (9.20120830) unstable; urgency=low
38 * dh_installcatalogs: Adjust catalog conffile conversion to avoid
39 dpkg conffile prompt when upgrading from a removed package.
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:04:10 -0400
44 debhelper (9.20120608) unstable; urgency=low
46 * dh: When there's an -indep override target without -arch, or vice versa,
47 avoid acting on packages covered by the override target when running
48 the command for packages not covered by it. Closes: #676462
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:15:48 -0400
52 debhelper (9.20120528) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_installcatalogs: Turn /etc/sgml/$package.cat into conffiles
55 and introduce dependency on trigger-based sgml-base. Closes: #477751
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 May 2012 13:40:26 -0400
60 debhelper (9.20120523) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #673629 Thanks, Omar Campagne
63 * Set Multi-Arch: foreign. Closes: #674193
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 May 2012 14:55:48 -0400
67 debhelper (9.20120518) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Fix versioned dependency on dpkg for xz options. Closes: #672895
70 * dh_link: Doc improvement. Closes: #672988
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 May 2012 11:05:03 -0400
74 debhelper (9.20120513) unstable; urgency=low
76 * Improve -v logging. Closes: #672448
77 * dh_builddeb: Build udebs with xz compression, level 1, extreme strategy.
78 This has been chosen to not need any more memory or cpu when uncompressing,
79 while yeilding the best compressions for udebs. Thanks, Philipp Kern.
80 * Depend on a new enough dpkg for above features. Backporters will need
81 to revert these changes.
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 May 2012 13:09:42 -0400
85 debhelper (9.20120509) unstable; urgency=low
87 * dh_installman: Recognize sections from mdoc .Dt entries. Closes: #670210
89 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #671598
90 * dh_install: Reorder documentation for clarity. Closes: #672109
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 May 2012 12:59:15 -0400
94 debhelper (9.20120419) unstable; urgency=low
96 * Fix compat level checking for cmake. Closes: #669181
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:35 -0400
100 debhelper (9.20120418) unstable; urgency=low
102 * cmake: Only pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS in v9.
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:39 -0400
106 debhelper (9.20120417) unstable; urgency=low
108 * cmake: Pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS. Closes: #668813
109 Thanks, Simon Ruderich for the patch and for verifying no affected
110 package is broken by this change.
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:29 -0400
114 debhelper (9.20120410) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891
118 * Conflict with too old automake for AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. Closes: #666901
119 * dh_md5sums: Don't skip DEBIAN directories other than the control files
123 * dh_installinit: rework upstart handling to comply with new policy
124 proposal; packages will ship both an init script and an upstart job,
125 instead of just an upstart job and a symlink to a compat wrapper.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:51:15 -0400
130 debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
133 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
134 Added to interface documentation.
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400
139 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
141 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
145 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
148 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
149 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
150 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
152 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
153 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
154 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
155 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
156 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
161 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
164 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
165 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
166 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
167 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
168 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
169 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
173 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
175 * Typo. Closes: #653006
176 * Typo. Closes: #653339
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
180 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
182 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
183 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
184 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
185 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
186 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
187 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
191 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
193 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
194 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
195 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
196 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
197 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
198 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
199 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
200 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
204 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
210 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
212 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
213 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
214 may need to disable this.
215 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
216 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
217 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
218 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
222 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
224 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
225 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
226 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
230 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
232 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
233 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
234 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
236 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
237 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
238 to dh. Closes: #643069
239 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
240 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
244 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
246 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
247 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
248 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
249 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
250 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
252 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
253 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
254 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
256 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
257 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
258 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
259 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
260 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
261 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
262 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
263 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
264 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
265 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
266 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
267 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
268 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
269 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
270 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
274 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
276 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
281 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
283 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
284 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
286 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
292 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
294 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
295 Use override targets instead.
296 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
297 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
298 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
299 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
300 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
301 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
302 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
303 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
304 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
305 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
310 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
312 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
313 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
317 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
319 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
323 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
325 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
326 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
327 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
328 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
329 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
330 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
331 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
335 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
338 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
339 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
340 the targets. Closes: #629139
341 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
342 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
343 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
344 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
345 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
346 are already set to other values will not be changed.
348 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
349 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
350 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
351 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
352 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
357 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
359 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
363 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
366 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
367 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
371 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
374 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
375 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
376 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
377 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
378 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
379 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
380 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
385 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
389 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
390 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
392 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
393 changes may be added to that mode.
394 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
395 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
396 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
397 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
398 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
399 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
400 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
401 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
402 * Removed old example rules files.
403 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
407 * update french translation.
408 * Fix french misspelling.
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
412 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
414 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
415 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
419 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
422 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
423 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
424 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
425 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
426 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
427 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
428 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
432 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
435 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
436 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
437 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
438 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
439 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
440 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
442 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
443 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
444 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
445 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
446 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
447 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
448 (Thanks, David Prévot)
449 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
450 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
451 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
452 target fails. Closes: #601037
453 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
455 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
456 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
457 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
458 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
459 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
461 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
462 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
464 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
465 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
466 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
468 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
470 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
473 * update french translation.
474 * Fix french misspelling.
475 * French translation update after massive man page typography
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
479 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
485 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
489 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
491 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
495 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
497 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
498 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
499 introduced by the fix to #527990.
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
503 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
505 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
506 changes are planned for that mode.
507 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
508 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
509 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
510 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
511 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
512 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
513 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
514 (genesis) still uses them.
515 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
516 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
517 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
518 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
519 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
520 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
521 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
522 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
523 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
524 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
525 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
526 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
527 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
528 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
529 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
530 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
531 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
532 commands. (See #570039)
533 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
535 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
540 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
542 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
544 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
545 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
546 in control file or debhelper config files.
547 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
551 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
553 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
554 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
555 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
559 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
561 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
562 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
566 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
569 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
570 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
574 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
576 * Updated French translation.
577 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
578 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
579 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
580 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
582 * Typo. Closes: #571968
583 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
584 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
585 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
586 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
587 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
588 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
589 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
590 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
591 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
593 * dh: Improve documentation.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
597 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
599 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
600 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
601 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
605 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
607 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
608 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
612 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
614 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
615 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
619 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
621 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
622 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
623 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
624 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
625 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
626 options that they do not support.
627 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
628 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
629 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
630 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
631 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
632 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
637 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
641 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
642 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
643 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
644 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
645 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
646 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
647 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
648 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
649 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
653 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
655 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
656 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
657 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
658 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
659 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
663 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Typo. Closes: #558654
666 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
667 installed. Closes: #558782
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
671 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
673 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
674 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
675 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
676 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
677 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
678 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
682 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
684 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
685 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
686 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
687 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
691 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
693 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
694 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
695 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
699 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
701 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
705 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
707 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
708 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
709 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
710 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
711 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
712 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
713 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
714 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
715 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
716 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
717 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
718 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
719 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
720 time soon.) Closes: #554509
721 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
723 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
724 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
725 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
726 document id. Closes: #555677
727 * Typo. Closes: #555659
728 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
729 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
730 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
731 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
733 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
734 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
735 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
740 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
743 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
744 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
745 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
746 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
747 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
748 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
749 translation (#494300 part 2)
752 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
754 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
755 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
756 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
757 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
758 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
762 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
764 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
765 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
766 (It was only run once due to logging.)
767 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
768 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
769 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
770 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
771 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
772 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
773 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
774 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
775 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
776 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
780 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
784 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
787 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
788 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
792 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
794 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
795 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
796 flag with arch all/any packages.
797 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
798 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
799 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
800 situation. Closes: #540794
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
804 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
806 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
808 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
809 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
810 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
811 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
812 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
815 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
816 the default. Closes: #538201
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
821 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
823 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
825 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
826 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
827 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
828 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
829 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
831 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
832 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
833 * Above Closes: #491117
834 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
839 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
842 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
845 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
846 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
847 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
851 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
854 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
855 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
856 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
857 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
858 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
863 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
865 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
866 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
867 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
871 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
873 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
877 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
879 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
880 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
882 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
883 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
884 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
888 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
890 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
891 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
895 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
897 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
901 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
903 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
904 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
905 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
910 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
912 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
916 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
919 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
920 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
921 created by using `python' first during build and install.
923 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
928 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
930 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
934 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
936 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
937 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
941 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
943 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
947 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
949 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
953 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
955 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
956 contributed by Modestas Vainius
957 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
958 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
959 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
960 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
961 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
962 that support it. Closes: #480577
963 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
964 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
965 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
967 - Adds support for cmake.
968 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
969 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
971 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
973 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
974 that use them. The options are:
975 --sourcedir, --destdir
976 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
977 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
978 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
979 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
980 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
984 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
986 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
990 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
993 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
994 default. Closes: #537140
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
998 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
1001 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
1002 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
1006 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
1009 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
1013 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
1016 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
1020 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
1023 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
1025 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
1026 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
1027 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
1031 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
1034 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
1035 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
1036 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
1040 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
1043 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
1044 warning or deprecation message.
1045 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
1046 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
1047 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
1048 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
1049 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
1050 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
1051 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
1052 Closes: #534639, #357434
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
1056 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
1062 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
1065 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
1066 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
1067 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
1068 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
1070 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
1071 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
1072 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
1076 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
1082 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
1089 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
1092 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
1096 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
1100 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
1101 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
1103 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
1104 file support. Closes: #494914
1105 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
1109 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
1112 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
1113 parameters. Closes: #527256
1114 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
1115 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
1116 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
1120 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
1123 (Patch from #459548)
1124 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
1125 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
1126 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1130 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1133 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1134 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1135 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1139 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1142 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1143 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1145 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1146 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1147 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1151 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1155 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1159 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1162 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1163 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1164 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1165 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1170 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1176 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1179 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1180 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1181 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1182 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1183 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1185 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1186 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1187 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1188 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1189 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1190 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1194 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1197 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1198 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1199 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1200 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1201 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1203 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1207 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1209 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1213 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1215 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1216 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1217 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1218 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1219 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1220 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1221 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1222 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1223 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1224 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1225 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1229 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1231 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1232 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1234 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1235 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1236 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1237 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1239 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1240 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1244 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1246 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1247 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1248 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1249 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1250 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1251 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1252 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1254 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1255 that uses them. Affected options are:
1256 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1257 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1258 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1259 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1260 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1261 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1262 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1263 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1264 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1265 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1266 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1267 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1271 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1278 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1284 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1287 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1289 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1290 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1291 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1292 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1293 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1294 than the old method.
1295 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1297 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1298 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1299 rules (see bug #509756).
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1303 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1309 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1310 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1311 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1312 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1316 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1319 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1320 empty files. Closes: #490937
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1324 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1330 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1337 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1340 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1341 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1342 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1343 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1348 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1350 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1351 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1352 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1353 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1357 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1360 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1361 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1362 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1363 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1364 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1368 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1375 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1378 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1379 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1380 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1381 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1382 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1383 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1384 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1385 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1386 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1390 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1393 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1394 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1395 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1396 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1398 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1399 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1400 breaking backwards compatibility.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1404 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1407 message in perl 5.10.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1411 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1417 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1420 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1424 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1427 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1431 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1434 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1435 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1436 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1437 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1438 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1439 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1440 logging by dh_listpackages.
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1444 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1447 run and there are no packages of that type.
1448 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1449 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1450 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1451 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1453 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1454 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1458 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1461 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1462 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1466 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1469 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1470 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1472 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1473 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1474 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1475 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1476 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1477 planned but not yet implemented.)
1478 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1479 if the Makefile has such a target.
1480 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1481 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1482 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1483 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1484 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1485 but not yet implemented.)
1486 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1487 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1488 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1489 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1490 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1492 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1494 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1495 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1497 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1498 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1499 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1504 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1507 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1508 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1512 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1514 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1515 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1516 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1520 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1526 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1532 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1535 just those installed by the program.
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1539 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1542 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1543 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1547 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1550 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1551 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1552 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1553 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1557 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1560 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1561 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1565 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1568 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1569 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1573 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1576 with policy. Closes: #461392
1577 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1578 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1579 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1580 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1581 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1585 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1588 Closes: #460340, #460351
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1592 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1595 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1596 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1597 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1598 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1602 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1605 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1606 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1607 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1608 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1609 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1610 package build directory won't work.
1611 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1612 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1613 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1614 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1615 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1616 mode. Closes: #459426
1617 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1622 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1625 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1629 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1633 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1634 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1635 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1636 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1637 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1638 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1642 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1645 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1646 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1647 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1648 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1652 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1655 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1656 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1657 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1658 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1659 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1663 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1666 debian/package.triggers files.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1670 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1673 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1677 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1680 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1681 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1682 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1683 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1688 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1691 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1695 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1698 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1699 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1701 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1706 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1710 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1711 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1712 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1716 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1723 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1730 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1733 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1735 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1736 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1737 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1739 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1740 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1741 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1745 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1748 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1749 * Update urls to web page.
1750 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1751 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1752 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1753 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1757 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1760 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1761 - typo in alternatives call
1762 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1764 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1765 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1769 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1772 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1777 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1783 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1789 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1792 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1794 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1795 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1796 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1797 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1798 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1799 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1800 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1801 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1802 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1803 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1804 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1808 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1811 package install. Closes: #415717
1812 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1813 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1814 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1815 script and then remove the python files.
1816 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1817 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1818 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1819 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1820 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1821 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1822 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1823 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1824 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1825 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1826 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1827 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1828 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1832 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * Correct typo in french translation
1838 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1839 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1841 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1843 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1844 Closes: #406921, #381940
1845 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1847 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1848 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1849 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1850 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1851 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1852 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1853 specified). Closes: #381851
1854 * Misc minor changes.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1858 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1865 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1866 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1870 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1876 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1877 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1880 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1881 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1883 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1884 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1885 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1886 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1890 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1893 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1896 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1900 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1906 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1912 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1913 a difficult situation.
1914 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1915 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1916 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1917 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1918 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1919 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1920 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1921 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1922 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1923 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1927 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * Non-maintainer upload.
1930 * Update of dh_python
1931 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1932 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1934 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1935 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1936 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1937 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1938 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1940 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1942 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Non-maintainer upload.
1945 * Update of dh_python
1946 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1947 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1948 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1949 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1950 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1951 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1952 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1953 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1954 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1955 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1957 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1958 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1959 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1960 the not too-distant future).
1961 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1962 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1963 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1964 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1965 thus made the build fail.
1967 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1969 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Non-maintainer upload.
1972 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1974 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1976 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1979 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1980 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1981 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1982 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1983 package. Closes: #301424
1984 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1985 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1986 fonts). Closes: #372686
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1990 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1996 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1997 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1998 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1999 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
2000 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
2001 above, but already depends on that.
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
2005 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
2008 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
2009 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
2010 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
2011 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
2012 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
2016 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
2022 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
2028 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
2029 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
2033 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
2036 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
2040 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
2044 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
2045 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
2046 new version (0.24.1).
2047 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
2048 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
2051 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
2052 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
2053 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
2054 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
2055 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
2056 new directory on their own.
2057 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
2058 * Fix broken directory removal code.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
2062 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
2065 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
2066 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
2067 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
2068 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
2072 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
2075 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
2076 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
2077 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
2078 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
2079 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
2083 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
2089 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Typo. Closes: #358904
2093 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
2094 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
2098 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2099 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
2103 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
2105 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
2106 || exit 0 instead of the intended
2108 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
2109 ignored. Closes: #337664
2111 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
2116 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
2122 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
2127 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
2128 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2129 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2130 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2131 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2132 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2133 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2137 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2140 version. Closes: #350607
2141 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2142 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2143 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2144 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2148 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2151 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2152 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2153 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2157 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2164 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2170 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2173 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2177 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2180 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2181 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2182 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2183 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2184 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2185 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2189 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2192 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2193 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2198 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2201 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2205 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2208 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2212 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2215 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2216 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2217 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2218 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2219 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2220 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2224 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2228 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2229 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2230 link. Closes: #346405
2231 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2233 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2234 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2235 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2236 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2237 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2238 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2239 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2243 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2250 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2256 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2259 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2263 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2266 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2271 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2275 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2276 installed. Closes: #342033
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2280 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2283 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2284 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2285 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2290 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2296 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2302 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2306 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2307 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2308 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2312 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2315 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2320 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2327 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2333 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2336 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2337 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2338 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2339 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2340 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2341 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2342 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2344 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2348 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2351 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2352 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2356 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2359 in standard man dirs.
2360 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2364 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2370 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2373 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2378 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2385 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2392 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2395 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2396 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2400 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2403 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2404 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2405 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2407 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2409 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2415 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2421 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2424 mode. Closes: #324161
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2428 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2431 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2432 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2433 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2434 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2439 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2442 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2443 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2444 is necesary for sanity.
2445 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2446 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2451 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2453 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2454 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2458 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2461 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2465 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2471 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2474 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2475 released, so use at your own risk.
2476 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2477 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2479 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2480 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2481 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2482 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2483 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2484 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2485 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2486 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2487 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2488 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2489 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2490 including twice per config file line now..
2491 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2492 and simplfy the rules file.
2493 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2494 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2495 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2497 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2498 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2502 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2505 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2509 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2512 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2516 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2519 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2523 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2526 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2527 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2528 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2529 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2530 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2531 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2535 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2538 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2539 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2540 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2545 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2548 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2549 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2554 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2557 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2558 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2559 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2564 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2567 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2568 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2569 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2573 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2579 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2586 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2589 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2590 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2591 unknown. Closes: #282924
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2595 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2602 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * Spanish man page updates.
2605 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2610 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2616 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2619 * dh_desktop: reindent
2620 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2621 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2625 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2631 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2633 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2637 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2639 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2643 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2646 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2647 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2651 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2657 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2663 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2670 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2673 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2677 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2680 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2681 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2682 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2683 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2684 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2685 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2687 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2688 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2689 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2690 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2691 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2692 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2693 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2694 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2695 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2696 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2697 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2698 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2699 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2700 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2701 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2702 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2706 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2713 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2716 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2720 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2723 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2727 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2730 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2734 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2737 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2741 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2747 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2753 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2759 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2762 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2763 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2764 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2768 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2771 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2775 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2778 but occasionally right and necessary.
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2782 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2785 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2786 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2787 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2788 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2789 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2793 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2796 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2798 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2799 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2800 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2801 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2802 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2803 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2804 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2805 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2806 postinst scripts for udebs.
2807 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2811 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2814 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2816 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2817 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2821 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2827 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2834 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2841 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2844 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2848 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2851 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2855 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2858 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2861 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2862 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2866 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2872 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2875 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2879 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2882 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2883 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2884 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2886 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2888 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2889 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2890 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2894 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2897 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2902 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2905 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2906 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2907 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2912 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2918 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2924 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2927 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2928 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2929 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2930 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2931 associated -dbg packages.
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2935 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2938 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2942 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2945 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2949 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2952 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2956 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2959 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2964 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2967 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2971 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2974 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2979 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2982 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2986 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2990 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2991 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2992 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2993 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2994 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2995 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2996 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2997 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2998 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2999 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
3003 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
3006 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
3011 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
3014 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
3015 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
3019 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
3022 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
3023 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
3028 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
3031 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
3035 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
3038 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
3042 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
3045 out section number. Closes: #204731
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
3049 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
3056 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
3062 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
3068 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Typo, Closes: #203907
3071 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
3072 removal. Closes: #204286
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
3076 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
3079 renaming. Closes: #203548
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
3083 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
3086 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
3087 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
3091 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
3097 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
3103 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
3109 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
3112 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
3113 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
3114 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
3118 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
3121 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
3122 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
3126 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3132 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3139 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3142 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3147 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3150 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3154 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3157 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3159 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3160 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3164 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3167 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3172 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3175 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3179 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3185 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3187 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3191 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3194 it break hard links (see #188663).
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3198 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3201 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3205 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3211 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3215 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3216 debconf-mergetemplates
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3220 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3223 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3227 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3230 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3234 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3237 * Update debhelper(1).
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3241 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3244 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3245 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3246 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3247 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3248 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3252 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3255 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3256 the shell. Closes: #178524
3257 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3261 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3264 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3268 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3271 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3275 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3278 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3279 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3280 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3281 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3286 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3289 files from installation.
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3293 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3296 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3297 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3301 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3304 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3308 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3311 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3315 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3321 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3327 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3331 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3332 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3334 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3338 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3341 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3342 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3343 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3344 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3348 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3351 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3355 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3358 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3359 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3363 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3367 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3372 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3378 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3382 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3383 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3384 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3389 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3392 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3393 practice. Closes: #163303
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3397 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3403 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3410 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3413 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3415 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3416 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3417 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3418 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3419 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3423 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3426 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3431 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3437 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3444 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3447 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3452 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3458 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3464 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3470 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3477 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3480 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3481 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3482 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3483 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3488 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3494 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3501 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3504 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3505 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3509 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3512 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3513 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3514 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3515 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3516 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3520 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3523 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3525 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3530 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3533 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3537 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3540 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3541 right thing. Closes: #150644
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3545 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * Stupid, evil typo.
3548 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3552 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3559 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3562 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3563 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3568 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3574 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3577 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3581 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3584 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3585 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3590 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3593 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3597 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3603 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3606 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3607 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3611 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3613 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3617 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3619 * Removing perl warning message.
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3623 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3626 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3627 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3628 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3629 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3630 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3631 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3632 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3633 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3637 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3643 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3645 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3650 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3653 debconf-mergetemplate.
3654 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3655 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3659 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3662 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3663 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3664 dh_install, which ...
3665 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3666 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3667 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3668 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3669 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3670 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3671 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3672 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3673 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3674 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3675 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3676 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3677 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3678 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3679 other minor changes.
3680 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3681 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3682 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3683 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3684 course there's -X ..)
3685 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3686 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3687 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3689 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3690 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3691 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3692 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3693 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3698 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3704 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3707 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3711 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3717 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3723 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3725 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3729 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3735 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3738 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3739 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3740 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3741 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3743 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3744 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3748 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3754 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3757 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3761 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3764 upset. Closes: #131322
3766 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3768 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3770 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3771 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3772 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3773 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3774 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3775 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3776 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3777 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3778 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3779 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3780 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3781 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3782 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3783 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3784 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3785 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3787 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3791 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3794 - Better indenting of generated code.
3795 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3799 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3801 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3803 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3804 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3805 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3806 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3807 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3808 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3809 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3813 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3816 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3820 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3823 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3824 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3825 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3826 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3827 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3828 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3829 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3830 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3831 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3832 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3833 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3834 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3835 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3836 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3837 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3842 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3848 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3851 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3852 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3856 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3859 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3860 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3864 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3870 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3873 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3874 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3875 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3876 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3877 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3882 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3888 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3891 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3895 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3898 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3903 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3909 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3912 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3916 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3918 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3922 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3926 Also some indentation fixes.
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3930 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3933 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3934 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3935 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3936 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3937 Closes: #106514, #85520
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3941 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3947 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3953 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3955 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3959 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3965 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3971 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3974 change it in debhelper v4..
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3978 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3984 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3987 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3991 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3994 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3998 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
4004 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
4007 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
4008 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
4009 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
4010 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
4011 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
4012 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
4013 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
4014 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
4015 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
4016 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
4017 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
4018 prefixed with ".debhelper")
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
4022 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
4025 look just like shared libs, but are not.
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
4029 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
4034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
4036 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4038 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
4039 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
4040 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
4041 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
4042 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
4043 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
4044 program those options go to. So, for example,
4045 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
4046 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
4047 something complex. Closes: #89311
4048 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
4052 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
4055 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
4056 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
4057 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
4061 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
4064 through loop. Closes: #98598
4066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
4068 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4070 * Missing semi-colon.
4071 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
4072 this (dh_* should be called, really).
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
4076 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
4079 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
4080 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
4081 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
4085 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
4088 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
4089 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
4093 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
4096 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
4100 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
4103 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
4104 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
4106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
4108 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4110 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
4111 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
4112 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
4113 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
4117 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
4120 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
4121 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
4122 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
4126 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4129 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4133 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4139 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4145 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4151 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4153 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4157 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4160 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4164 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4166 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4167 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4168 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4169 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4170 followed. Closes: #85483
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4174 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4176 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4177 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4178 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4182 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4184 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4185 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4186 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4187 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4188 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4189 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4190 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4191 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4192 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4193 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4194 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4195 Closes: #88464, #77743
4196 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4197 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4198 us to deal with that gracefully.
4199 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4201 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4202 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4203 a while, Closes: #51225
4205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4207 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4213 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4216 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4220 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4222 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4224 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4229 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4232 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4233 don't make packlist files.
4234 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4235 debhelper coding standards.
4236 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4237 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4241 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4243 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4244 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4248 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4251 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4252 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4253 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4254 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4255 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4256 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4257 but is mildly deprecated.
4258 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4259 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4260 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4261 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4262 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4263 switching to statoverrides..
4264 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4265 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4266 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4267 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4268 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4269 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4271 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4272 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4273 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4274 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4275 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4276 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4277 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4278 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4279 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4281 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4282 variable names, pod man pages).
4283 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4284 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4285 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4286 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4287 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4288 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4289 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4293 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4295 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4299 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4301 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4306 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4309 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4313 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4315 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4316 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4317 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4321 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4323 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4324 they were previously ignored.
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4328 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4330 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4331 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4335 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4337 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4338 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4339 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4343 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4345 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4349 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4351 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4352 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4356 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4358 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4359 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4360 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4361 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4362 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4363 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4364 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4365 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4366 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4367 it is an obsolete program.
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4371 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4373 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4377 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4381 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4383 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4387 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4389 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4391 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4393 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4397 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4403 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * typo: Closes, #78567
4407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4409 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4411 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4415 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4421 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4423 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4424 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4425 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4426 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4427 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4428 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4432 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4434 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4435 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4440 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4443 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4444 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4445 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4446 backwards-compatibility.
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4450 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4453 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4454 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4455 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4456 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4457 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4458 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4460 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4461 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4462 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4464 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4466 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4467 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4468 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4469 should now be raised to severity important..
4470 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4471 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4475 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4478 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4483 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4489 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4495 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4501 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4508 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4510 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4511 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4512 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4513 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4514 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4518 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4524 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4527 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4528 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4529 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4530 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4531 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4532 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4537 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4540 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4544 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4546 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4550 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4553 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4558 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4560 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4561 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4562 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4563 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4564 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4568 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4572 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4575 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4578 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4579 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4582 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4584 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4585 the TODO entry about it.
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4589 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4596 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4598 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4599 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4600 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4604 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4607 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4608 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4609 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4610 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4614 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4620 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4627 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4630 (this appears to be logal).
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4634 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4637 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4638 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4639 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4640 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4644 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4650 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4652 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4653 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4654 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4655 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4656 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4660 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4666 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4669 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4673 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4680 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4683 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4684 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4685 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4690 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4697 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4703 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4706 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4707 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4708 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4709 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4710 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4711 notice until v2 is complete.
4712 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
4713 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4714 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4715 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4716 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4717 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4719 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4720 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4721 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4722 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4726 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4732 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4734 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4739 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4742 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4746 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4748 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4753 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4755 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4756 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4757 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4758 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4759 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4764 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4766 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4767 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4768 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4769 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4774 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4777 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4778 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4782 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4785 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4789 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4792 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4796 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4798 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4803 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4806 depend on the build and install targets.
4808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4810 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4812 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4813 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4817 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4824 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4830 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4836 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4838 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4839 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4840 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4841 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4842 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4843 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4844 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4846 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4847 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4848 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4849 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4850 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4851 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4852 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4856 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4858 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4862 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4868 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4871 right place. Closes: #55065
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4875 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4882 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4885 * Copyright date updates.
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4889 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4892 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4897 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4899 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4903 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4905 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4910 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4916 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4918 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4922 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4924 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4928 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4931 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4932 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4933 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4934 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4935 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4936 bits until all files have been registered.
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4940 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * dh_installmanpages:
4943 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4944 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4945 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4946 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4947 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4948 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4949 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4950 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4951 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4952 otherwise change the result at all.
4954 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4955 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4956 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4957 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4958 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4963 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4969 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4971 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4972 act on files that don't exist.
4973 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4974 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4975 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4977 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4978 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4979 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4980 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4984 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4990 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4992 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4996 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4999 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
5003 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
5006 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
5008 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
5009 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
5010 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
5014 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5016 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
5017 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
5018 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
5019 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
5020 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
5021 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
5022 does not compress. Closes: #41733
5023 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
5025 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
5027 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
5029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
5031 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5033 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
5036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
5038 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5040 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
5044 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
5048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
5050 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5052 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
5053 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
5055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
5057 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5059 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
5061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
5063 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5065 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
5067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
5069 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5071 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
5072 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
5073 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
5074 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
5075 I made some changes, though:
5076 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
5077 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
5078 that is a clear violation of policy.
5079 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
5080 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
5081 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
5082 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
5083 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
5084 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
5085 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
5086 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
5087 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
5089 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
5091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
5093 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5095 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
5097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
5099 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5101 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
5102 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
5104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
5106 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5108 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
5109 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
5110 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
5115 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
5119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
5121 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5123 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
5126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
5128 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5130 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5131 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5132 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5133 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5134 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5135 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5136 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5137 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5141 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5143 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5147 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5149 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5151 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5152 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5156 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5162 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5164 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5165 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5169 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5172 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5173 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5177 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5179 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5184 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5188 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5192 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5194 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5195 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5196 for the dependancies to be generated.
5198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5200 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5202 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5203 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5207 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5210 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5211 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5212 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5217 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5220 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5221 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5225 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5227 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5231 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5233 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5237 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5240 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5244 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5246 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5250 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5252 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5253 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5254 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5255 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5256 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5257 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5258 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5259 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5260 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5261 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5262 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5263 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5264 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5268 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5270 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5271 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5272 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5274 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5275 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5276 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5277 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5278 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5279 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5281 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5282 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5286 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5288 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5289 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5293 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5295 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5300 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5302 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5303 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5308 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5310 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5311 for building debhelper.
5312 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5316 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5318 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5323 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5325 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5326 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5330 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5332 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5333 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5334 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5335 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5336 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5337 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5338 it's always available.
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5342 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5345 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5346 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5347 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5351 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5354 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5355 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5359 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5365 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5368 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5372 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5374 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5378 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5380 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5381 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5382 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5383 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5387 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5389 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5390 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5395 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5397 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5398 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5399 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5401 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5402 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5406 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5408 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5412 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5414 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5418 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5420 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5421 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5425 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5427 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5428 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5429 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5431 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5435 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5438 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5439 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5440 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5444 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5446 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5447 things if CDPATH is set.
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5451 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5453 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5457 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5459 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5460 seems to make sense for the transition.
5462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5464 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5466 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5467 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5472 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5474 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5475 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5476 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5480 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5483 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5487 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5490 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5491 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5492 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5493 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5497 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5499 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5503 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5505 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5506 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5507 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5508 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5509 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5510 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5511 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5512 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5513 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5514 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5515 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5520 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5522 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5523 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5524 * README: mention doc/v2
5525 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5526 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5530 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5532 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5533 be using this script RSN.
5535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5537 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5539 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5540 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5541 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5542 more than 1 init script.
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5546 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5549 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5553 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5555 * Changed perl version detection.
5556 * Changed call to find.
5558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5560 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5562 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5563 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5565 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5570 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5572 * Really include dh_installpam.
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5576 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5579 * Wrote man page for same.
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5583 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5586 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5587 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5592 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5594 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5599 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5601 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5602 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5603 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5604 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5605 x bit was being set!
5607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5609 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5611 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5612 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5613 well. (Closes: 38900)
5615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5617 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5619 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5620 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5621 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5625 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5631 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5633 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5638 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5640 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5644 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5646 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5647 help from Julian Gilbey.
5648 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5649 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5650 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5651 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5652 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5653 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5654 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5659 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5661 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5665 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5672 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5678 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5684 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5686 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5687 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5691 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5693 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5694 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5698 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5700 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5701 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5705 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5707 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5711 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5713 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5714 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5718 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5724 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5726 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5730 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5732 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5733 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5734 may be deleted. (#35845)
5736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5738 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5740 * Various man page enhancements.
5741 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5746 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5748 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5749 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5750 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5754 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5756 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5757 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5758 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5759 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5761 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5762 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5767 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5769 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5773 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5775 * Another very minor typo fix.
5777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5779 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5781 * Very minor typo fix.
5783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5785 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5787 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5788 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5789 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5793 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5795 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5799 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5801 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5802 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5803 variables properly (#34850).
5805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5807 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5809 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5813 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5815 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5816 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5817 (automatically generated by build process).
5819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5821 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5823 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5827 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5829 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5830 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5831 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5833 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5837 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5839 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5840 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5844 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5846 * README: minor typo fix.
5848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5850 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5852 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5853 leave it at that. :-)
5855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5857 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5859 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5863 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5865 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5869 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5871 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5872 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5873 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5874 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5878 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5880 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5881 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5885 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5887 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5888 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5892 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5894 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5895 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5896 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5897 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5898 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5902 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5904 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5905 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5906 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5907 Craig Small for spotting this.
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5911 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5914 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5915 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5919 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5921 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5925 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5927 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5928 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5932 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5934 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5935 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5936 working on the last version of debhelper.
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5940 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5943 being made. (#23255)
5945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5947 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5949 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5953 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5955 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5956 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5960 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5962 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5963 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5964 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5965 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5966 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5970 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5972 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5973 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5974 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5975 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5976 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5978 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5979 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5981 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5986 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5988 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5992 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5994 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5998 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
6000 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
6001 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
6002 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
6003 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
6004 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
6005 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
6006 suidregister actually supports it.
6007 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
6008 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
6010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
6012 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
6014 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
6017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
6019 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
6021 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
6022 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
6023 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
6024 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
6025 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
6026 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
6027 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
6028 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
6030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
6032 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
6034 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
6035 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
6039 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
6042 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
6043 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
6044 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
6045 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
6047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
6049 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
6051 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
6052 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
6054 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
6055 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
6056 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
6057 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
6058 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
6059 effect, either. (#30118)
6061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
6063 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
6065 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
6067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
6069 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
6071 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
6072 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
6073 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
6075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
6077 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
6079 * Spelling and typo fixes.
6081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
6083 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
6085 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
6086 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
6087 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
6088 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
6089 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
6091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
6093 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
6095 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
6096 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
6097 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
6099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
6101 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
6103 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
6105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
6107 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
6109 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
6110 packages, painlessly.
6112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
6114 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
6116 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
6118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
6120 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
6122 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
6124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
6126 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
6128 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6132 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6134 * The perl conversion is complete.
6136 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6138 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6139 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6140 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6145 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6147 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6148 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6149 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6150 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6154 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6156 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6157 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6159 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6161 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6162 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6166 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6168 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6169 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6170 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6174 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6176 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6180 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6182 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6183 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6184 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6185 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6186 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6187 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6191 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6193 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6194 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6195 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6196 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6197 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6201 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6203 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6204 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6208 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6210 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6211 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6212 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6213 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6214 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6215 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6216 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6217 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6218 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6222 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6224 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6228 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6230 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6231 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6232 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6233 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6238 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6240 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6241 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6245 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6247 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6248 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6252 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6254 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6255 sections of shared libraries.
6256 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6257 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6258 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6259 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6260 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6261 things you don't want them to.
6262 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6263 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6267 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6269 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6270 shared libraries. (#26414)
6272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6274 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6276 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6277 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6278 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6279 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6283 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6285 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6287 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6289 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6290 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6291 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6292 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6293 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6297 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6299 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6300 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6304 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6306 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6307 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6308 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6313 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6315 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6316 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6320 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6322 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6323 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6324 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6325 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6326 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6327 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6329 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6330 remove debian/files properly.
6331 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6332 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6333 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6334 * Removed bogus menu file.
6336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6338 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6340 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6341 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6345 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6347 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6348 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6349 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6350 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6351 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6352 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6353 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6357 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6359 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6360 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6361 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6362 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6363 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6367 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6369 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6374 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6376 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6377 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6378 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6380 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6381 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6382 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6383 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6384 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6385 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6389 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6391 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6392 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6393 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6394 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6395 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6396 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6397 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6398 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6399 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6400 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6401 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6402 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6403 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6404 passed any switches.
6405 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6409 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6411 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6412 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6413 at all for a long while.
6414 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6415 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6416 large chunks in the process.
6417 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6418 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6419 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6424 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6426 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6427 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6429 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6434 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6436 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6437 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6438 that don't always have the same files in them.
6439 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6440 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6441 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6445 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6447 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6449 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6450 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6451 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6452 updating 27 man pages.
6453 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6454 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6455 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6456 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6457 programs act on. (#25247)
6459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6461 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6465 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6466 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6467 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6468 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6469 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6470 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6475 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6477 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6482 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6484 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6489 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6491 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6492 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6496 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6498 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6502 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6504 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6505 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6506 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6507 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6508 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6509 package by accident.
6510 * Is version 1.0 next?
6512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6514 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6516 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6517 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6518 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6522 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6524 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6525 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6526 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6527 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6528 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6529 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6531 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6536 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6538 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6539 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6540 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6544 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6546 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6547 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6551 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6553 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6554 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6555 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6560 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6562 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6566 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6568 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6569 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6570 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6575 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6577 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6581 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6583 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6584 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6585 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6586 past week. Thanks, guys!
6588 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6589 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6590 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6591 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6592 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6593 would do in the same situation.
6594 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6595 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6597 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6599 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6600 permissions changed.
6601 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6602 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6603 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6604 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6605 files are treated identically.
6606 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6607 * Minor man page fixes.
6608 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6609 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6610 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6614 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6616 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6617 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6618 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6619 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6620 use -X multiple times, too.
6621 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6622 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6626 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6628 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6629 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6630 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6634 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6636 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6637 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6641 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6643 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6644 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6645 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6646 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6647 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6648 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6649 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6650 shape if you're starting a new package.
6652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6654 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6656 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6657 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6661 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6663 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6664 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6665 because of missing symlinks.
6667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6669 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6671 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6675 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6677 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6678 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6679 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6680 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6681 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6682 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6684 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6685 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6689 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6691 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6692 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6693 to be changed after the fact :-)
6694 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6698 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6700 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6701 no version string after the -V.
6703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6705 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6707 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6708 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6713 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6715 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6716 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6720 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6722 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6723 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6724 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6725 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6726 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6727 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6728 I always welcome corrections!
6730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6732 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6734 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6738 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6740 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6741 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6742 * Documented this new switch.
6744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6746 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6748 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6749 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6750 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6751 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6752 no packages use the old behavior.
6754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6756 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6758 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6759 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6760 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6764 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6766 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6767 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6771 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6773 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6777 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6779 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6780 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6784 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6786 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6787 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6788 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6789 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6793 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6795 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6799 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6801 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6802 into the source package by accident.
6804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6806 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6808 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6809 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6810 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6811 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6812 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6813 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6814 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6819 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6821 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6823 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6824 inspired to implement some of it.
6825 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6829 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6831 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6832 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6836 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6838 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6839 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6840 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6844 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6846 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6847 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6848 have done.) (#17598)
6850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6852 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6854 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6858 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6860 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6864 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6866 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6867 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6871 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6873 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6874 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6875 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6879 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6881 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6882 argument processor in perl.
6883 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6884 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6885 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6886 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6890 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6892 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6893 type directories. (#16933)
6894 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6895 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6896 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6897 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6898 are supported. (#16935)
6899 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6904 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6906 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6907 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6911 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6913 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6915 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6916 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6917 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6918 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6919 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6920 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6924 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6926 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6927 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6928 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6930 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6931 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6932 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6933 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6934 a given package, or -i or -a.
6935 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6936 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6937 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6938 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6939 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6940 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6941 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6942 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6943 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6945 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6946 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6947 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6951 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6953 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6954 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6955 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6960 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6962 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6963 does not have a section.
6965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6967 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6969 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6970 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6971 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6972 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6976 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6978 * Fixed typo #16215.
6980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6982 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6984 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6985 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6986 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6987 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6988 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6989 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6994 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6996 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6997 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6998 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6999 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
7002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
7004 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
7006 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
7008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
7010 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
7012 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
7014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
7016 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
7018 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
7019 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
7020 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
7021 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
7022 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
7023 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
7024 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
7026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
7028 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
7030 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
7032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
7034 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
7036 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
7037 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
7039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
7041 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
7043 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
7044 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
7045 the dh_* programs (#15497).
7046 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
7048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
7050 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
7052 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
7053 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
7055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
7057 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
7059 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
7061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
7063 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
7065 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
7066 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
7068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
7070 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
7072 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
7073 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
7075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
7077 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
7079 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
7081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
7083 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
7085 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
7086 postinst, postrm, etc.
7088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
7090 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
7092 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
7094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
7096 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
7098 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
7099 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
7100 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
7101 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
7102 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
7103 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
7105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
7107 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
7109 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
7110 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
7111 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
7113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
7115 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
7117 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
7118 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
7120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
7122 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
7124 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
7125 installing package files into.
7126 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7131 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7133 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7135 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7139 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7141 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7145 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7147 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7148 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7152 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7154 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7155 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7156 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7157 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7158 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7162 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7164 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7165 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7166 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7167 multiple binary packages.
7168 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7169 should rebuild them with this version.
7170 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7174 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7176 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7177 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7181 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7183 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7184 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7188 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7190 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7191 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7192 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7193 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7194 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7195 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7196 debian/README.debian.
7197 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7198 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7199 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7200 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7201 in a few situations.)
7203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7205 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7207 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7211 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7213 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7217 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7219 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7220 * Fixed several man pages.
7222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7224 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7226 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7227 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7228 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7232 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7234 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7235 is ready for general use.
7236 * Added man pages for all commands.
7237 * Multiple binary package support.
7238 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7239 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7240 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7242 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7243 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7244 auto-installed as parameters.
7245 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7247 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7250 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7251 the package build directory it is to act on.
7252 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7253 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7254 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7258 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7260 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7261 ready to replace debstd.
7263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400