1 debhelper (9.20120519) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #673629 Thanks, Omar Campagne
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 May 2012 11:02:52 -0400
7 debhelper (9.20120518) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Fix versioned dependency on dpkg for xz options. Closes: #672895
10 * dh_link: Doc improvement. Closes: #672988
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 May 2012 11:05:03 -0400
14 debhelper (9.20120513) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Improve -v logging. Closes: #672448
17 * dh_builddeb: Build udebs with xz compression, level 1, extreme strategy.
18 This has been chosen to not need any more memory or cpu when uncompressing,
19 while yeilding the best compressions for udebs. Thanks, Philipp Kern.
20 * Depend on a new enough dpkg for above features. Backporters will need
21 to revert these changes.
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 May 2012 13:09:42 -0400
25 debhelper (9.20120509) unstable; urgency=low
27 * dh_installman: Recognize sections from mdoc .Dt entries. Closes: #670210
29 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #671598
30 * dh_install: Reorder documentation for clarity. Closes: #672109
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 May 2012 12:59:15 -0400
34 debhelper (9.20120419) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Fix compat level checking for cmake. Closes: #669181
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:35 -0400
40 debhelper (9.20120418) unstable; urgency=low
42 * cmake: Only pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS in v9.
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:39 -0400
46 debhelper (9.20120417) unstable; urgency=low
48 * cmake: Pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS. Closes: #668813
49 Thanks, Simon Ruderich for the patch and for verifying no affected
50 package is broken by this change.
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:29 -0400
54 debhelper (9.20120410) unstable; urgency=low
57 * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891
58 * Conflict with too old automake for AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. Closes: #666901
59 * dh_md5sums: Don't skip DEBIAN directories other than the control files
63 * dh_installinit: rework upstart handling to comply with new policy
64 proposal; packages will ship both an init script and an upstart job,
65 instead of just an upstart job and a symlink to a compat wrapper.
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:51:15 -0400
70 debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low
72 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
73 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
74 Added to interface documentation.
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400
79 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
85 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
87 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
88 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
89 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
90 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
92 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
93 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
94 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
95 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
96 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
101 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
103 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
104 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
105 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
106 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
107 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
108 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
109 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
113 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Typo. Closes: #653006
116 * Typo. Closes: #653339
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
120 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
122 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
123 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
124 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
125 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
126 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
127 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
131 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
134 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
135 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
136 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
137 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
138 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
139 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
140 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
144 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
150 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
152 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
153 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
154 may need to disable this.
155 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
156 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
157 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
158 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
162 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
164 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
165 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
166 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
170 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
172 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
173 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
174 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
176 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
177 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
178 to dh. Closes: #643069
179 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
180 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
184 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
186 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
187 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
188 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
189 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
190 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
192 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
193 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
194 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
196 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
197 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
198 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
199 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
200 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
201 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
202 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
203 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
204 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
205 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
206 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
207 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
208 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
209 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
210 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
214 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
216 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
221 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
223 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
224 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
226 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
232 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
234 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
235 Use override targets instead.
236 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
237 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
238 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
239 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
240 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
241 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
242 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
243 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
244 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
245 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
250 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
252 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
253 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
257 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
259 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
263 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
265 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
266 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
267 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
268 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
269 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
270 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
271 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
275 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
277 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
278 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
279 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
280 the targets. Closes: #629139
281 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
282 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
283 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
284 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
285 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
286 are already set to other values will not be changed.
288 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
289 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
290 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
291 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
292 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
297 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
299 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
303 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
305 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
306 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
307 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
311 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
313 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
314 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
315 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
316 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
317 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
318 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
319 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
320 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
325 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
328 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
329 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
330 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
332 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
333 changes may be added to that mode.
334 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
335 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
336 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
337 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
338 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
339 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
340 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
341 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
342 * Removed old example rules files.
343 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
347 * update french translation.
348 * Fix french misspelling.
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
352 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
354 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
355 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
359 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
361 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
362 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
363 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
364 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
365 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
366 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
367 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
368 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
372 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
375 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
376 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
377 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
378 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
379 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
380 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
382 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
383 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
384 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
385 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
386 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
387 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
388 (Thanks, David Prévot)
389 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
390 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
391 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
392 target fails. Closes: #601037
393 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
395 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
396 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
397 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
398 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
399 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
401 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
402 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
404 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
405 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
406 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
408 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
410 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
413 * update french translation.
414 * Fix french misspelling.
415 * French translation update after massive man page typography
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
419 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
422 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
425 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
429 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
431 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
435 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
437 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
438 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
439 introduced by the fix to #527990.
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
443 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
446 changes are planned for that mode.
447 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
448 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
449 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
450 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
451 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
452 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
453 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
454 (genesis) still uses them.
455 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
456 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
457 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
458 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
459 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
460 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
461 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
462 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
463 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
464 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
465 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
466 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
467 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
468 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
469 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
470 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
471 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
472 commands. (See #570039)
473 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
475 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
480 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
482 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
484 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
485 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
486 in control file or debhelper config files.
487 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
491 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
493 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
494 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
495 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
499 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
501 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
502 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
506 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
508 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
509 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
510 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
514 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Updated French translation.
517 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
518 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
519 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
520 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
522 * Typo. Closes: #571968
523 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
524 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
525 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
526 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
527 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
528 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
529 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
530 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
531 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
533 * dh: Improve documentation.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
537 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
539 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
540 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
541 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
545 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
547 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
548 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
552 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
555 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
559 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
561 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
562 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
563 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
564 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
565 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
566 options that they do not support.
567 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
568 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
569 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
570 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
571 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
572 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
577 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
581 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
582 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
583 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
584 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
585 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
586 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
587 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
588 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
589 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
593 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
595 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
596 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
597 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
598 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
599 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
603 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
605 * Typo. Closes: #558654
606 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
607 installed. Closes: #558782
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
611 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
613 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
614 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
615 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
616 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
617 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
618 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
622 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
624 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
625 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
626 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
627 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
631 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
634 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
635 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
639 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
641 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
645 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
647 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
648 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
649 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
650 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
651 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
652 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
653 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
654 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
655 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
656 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
657 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
658 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
659 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
660 time soon.) Closes: #554509
661 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
663 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
664 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
665 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
666 document id. Closes: #555677
667 * Typo. Closes: #555659
668 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
669 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
670 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
671 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
673 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
674 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
675 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
680 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
683 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
684 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
685 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
686 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
687 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
688 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
689 translation (#494300 part 2)
692 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
694 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
695 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
696 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
697 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
698 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
702 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
704 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
705 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
706 (It was only run once due to logging.)
707 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
708 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
709 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
710 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
711 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
712 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
713 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
714 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
715 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
716 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
720 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
723 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
724 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
727 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
728 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
732 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
734 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
735 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
736 flag with arch all/any packages.
737 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
738 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
739 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
740 situation. Closes: #540794
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
744 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
746 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
748 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
749 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
750 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
751 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
752 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
755 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
756 the default. Closes: #538201
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
761 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
763 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
765 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
766 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
767 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
768 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
769 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
771 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
772 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
773 * Above Closes: #491117
774 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
779 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
782 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
785 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
786 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
787 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
791 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
794 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
795 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
796 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
797 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
798 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
803 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
806 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
807 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
811 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
813 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
817 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
819 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
820 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
822 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
823 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
824 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
828 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
830 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
831 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
835 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
837 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
841 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
843 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
844 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
845 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
850 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
852 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
856 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
859 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
860 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
861 created by using `python' first during build and install.
863 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
868 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
870 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
874 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
876 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
877 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
881 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
883 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
887 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
889 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
893 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
895 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
896 contributed by Modestas Vainius
897 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
898 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
899 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
900 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
901 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
902 that support it. Closes: #480577
903 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
904 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
905 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
907 - Adds support for cmake.
908 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
909 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
911 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
913 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
914 that use them. The options are:
915 --sourcedir, --destdir
916 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
917 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
918 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
919 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
920 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
924 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
926 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
930 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
933 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
934 default. Closes: #537140
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
938 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
941 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
942 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
946 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
948 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
949 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
953 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
956 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
960 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
962 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
963 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
965 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
966 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
967 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
971 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
974 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
975 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
976 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
980 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
983 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
984 warning or deprecation message.
985 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
986 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
987 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
988 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
989 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
990 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
991 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
992 Closes: #534639, #357434
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
996 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
1002 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
1005 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
1006 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
1007 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
1008 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
1010 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
1011 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
1012 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
1016 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
1022 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
1029 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
1032 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
1036 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
1040 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
1041 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
1043 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
1044 file support. Closes: #494914
1045 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
1049 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
1052 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
1053 parameters. Closes: #527256
1054 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
1055 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
1056 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
1060 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
1063 (Patch from #459548)
1064 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
1065 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
1066 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1070 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1073 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1074 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1075 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1079 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1082 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1083 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1085 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1086 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1087 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1091 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1095 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1099 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1102 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1103 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1104 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1105 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1110 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1116 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1119 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1120 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1121 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1122 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1123 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1125 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1126 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1127 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1128 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1129 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1130 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1134 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1137 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1138 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1139 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1140 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1141 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1143 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1147 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1149 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1153 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1155 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1156 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1157 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1158 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1159 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1160 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1161 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1162 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1163 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1164 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1165 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1169 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1171 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1172 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1174 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1175 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1176 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1177 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1179 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1180 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1184 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1186 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1187 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1188 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1189 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1190 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1191 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1192 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1194 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1195 that uses them. Affected options are:
1196 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1197 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1198 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1199 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1200 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1201 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1202 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1203 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1204 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1205 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1206 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1207 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1211 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1218 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1224 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1227 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1229 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1230 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1231 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1232 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1233 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1234 than the old method.
1235 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1237 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1238 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1239 rules (see bug #509756).
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1243 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1249 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1250 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1251 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1252 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1256 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1259 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1260 empty files. Closes: #490937
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1264 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1270 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1277 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1280 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1281 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1282 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1283 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1288 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1290 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1291 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1292 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1293 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1297 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1300 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1301 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1302 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1303 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1304 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1308 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1315 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1318 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1319 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1320 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1321 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1322 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1323 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1324 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1325 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1326 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1330 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1333 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1334 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1335 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1336 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1338 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1339 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1340 breaking backwards compatibility.
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1344 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1347 message in perl 5.10.
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1351 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1357 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1360 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1364 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1367 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1371 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1374 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1375 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1376 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1377 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1378 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1379 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1380 logging by dh_listpackages.
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1384 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1387 run and there are no packages of that type.
1388 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1389 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1390 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1391 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1393 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1394 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1398 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1401 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1402 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1406 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1409 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1410 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1412 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1413 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1414 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1415 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1416 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1417 planned but not yet implemented.)
1418 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1419 if the Makefile has such a target.
1420 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1421 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1422 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1423 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1424 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1425 but not yet implemented.)
1426 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1427 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1428 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1429 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1430 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1432 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1434 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1435 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1437 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1438 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1439 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1444 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1447 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1448 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1452 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1454 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1455 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1456 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1460 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1466 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1472 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1475 just those installed by the program.
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1479 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1482 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1483 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1487 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1490 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1491 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1492 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1493 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1497 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1500 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1501 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1505 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1508 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1509 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1513 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1516 with policy. Closes: #461392
1517 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1518 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1519 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1520 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1521 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1525 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1528 Closes: #460340, #460351
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1532 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1535 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1536 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1537 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1538 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1542 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1545 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1546 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1547 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1548 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1549 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1550 package build directory won't work.
1551 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1552 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1553 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1554 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1555 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1556 mode. Closes: #459426
1557 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1562 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1565 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1569 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1573 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1574 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1575 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1576 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1577 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1578 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1582 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1585 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1586 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1587 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1588 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1592 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1595 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1596 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1597 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1598 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1599 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1603 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1606 debian/package.triggers files.
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1610 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1613 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1617 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1620 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1621 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1622 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1623 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1628 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1631 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1635 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1638 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1639 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1641 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1646 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1650 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1651 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1652 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1656 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1663 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1670 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1673 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1675 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1676 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1677 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1679 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1680 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1681 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1685 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1688 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1689 * Update urls to web page.
1690 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1691 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1692 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1693 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1697 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1700 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1701 - typo in alternatives call
1702 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1704 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1705 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1709 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1712 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1717 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1723 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1729 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1732 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1734 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1735 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1736 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1737 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1738 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1739 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1740 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1741 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1742 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1743 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1744 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1748 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1751 package install. Closes: #415717
1752 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1753 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1754 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1755 script and then remove the python files.
1756 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1757 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1758 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1759 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1760 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1761 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1762 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1763 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1764 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1765 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1766 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1767 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1768 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1772 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * Correct typo in french translation
1778 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1779 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1781 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1783 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1784 Closes: #406921, #381940
1785 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1787 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1788 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1789 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1790 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1791 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1792 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1793 specified). Closes: #381851
1794 * Misc minor changes.
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1798 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1805 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1806 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1810 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1816 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1817 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1820 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1821 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1823 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1824 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1825 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1826 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1830 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1833 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1836 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1840 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1846 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1852 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1853 a difficult situation.
1854 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1855 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1856 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1857 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1858 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1859 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1860 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1861 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1862 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1863 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1867 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Non-maintainer upload.
1870 * Update of dh_python
1871 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1872 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1874 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1875 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1876 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1877 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1878 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1880 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1882 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * Non-maintainer upload.
1885 * Update of dh_python
1886 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1887 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1888 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1889 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1890 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1891 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1892 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1893 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1894 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1895 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1897 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1898 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1899 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1900 the not too-distant future).
1901 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1902 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1903 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1904 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1905 thus made the build fail.
1907 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1909 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * Non-maintainer upload.
1912 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1914 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1916 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1919 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1920 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1921 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1922 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1923 package. Closes: #301424
1924 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1925 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1926 fonts). Closes: #372686
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1930 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1936 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1937 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1938 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1939 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1940 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1941 above, but already depends on that.
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1945 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1948 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1949 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1950 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1951 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1952 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1956 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1962 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1968 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1969 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1973 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1976 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1980 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1984 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1985 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1986 new version (0.24.1).
1987 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1988 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1991 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1992 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1993 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1994 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1995 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1996 new directory on their own.
1997 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1998 * Fix broken directory removal code.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
2002 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
2005 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
2006 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
2007 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
2008 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
2012 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
2015 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
2016 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
2017 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
2018 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
2019 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
2023 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
2029 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * Typo. Closes: #358904
2033 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
2034 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
2038 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2039 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
2043 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
2045 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
2046 || exit 0 instead of the intended
2048 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
2049 ignored. Closes: #337664
2051 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
2056 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
2062 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
2067 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
2068 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2069 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2070 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2071 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2072 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2073 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2077 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2080 version. Closes: #350607
2081 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2082 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2083 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2084 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2088 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2091 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2092 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2093 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2097 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2104 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2110 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2113 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2117 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2120 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2121 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2122 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2123 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2124 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2125 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2129 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2132 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2133 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2138 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2141 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2145 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2148 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2152 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2155 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2156 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2157 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2158 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2159 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2160 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2164 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2168 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2169 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2170 link. Closes: #346405
2171 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2173 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2174 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2175 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2176 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2177 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2178 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2179 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2183 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2190 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2196 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2199 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2203 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2206 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2211 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2215 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2216 installed. Closes: #342033
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2220 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2223 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2224 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2225 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2230 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2236 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2242 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2246 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2247 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2248 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2252 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2255 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2260 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2267 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2273 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2276 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2277 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2278 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2279 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2280 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2281 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2282 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2284 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2288 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2291 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2292 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2296 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2299 in standard man dirs.
2300 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2304 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2310 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2313 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2318 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2325 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2332 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2335 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2336 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2340 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2343 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2344 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2345 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2347 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2349 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2355 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2361 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2364 mode. Closes: #324161
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2368 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2371 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2372 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2373 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2374 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2379 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2382 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2383 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2384 is necesary for sanity.
2385 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2386 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2391 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2393 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2394 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2398 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2401 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2405 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2411 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2414 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2415 released, so use at your own risk.
2416 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2417 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2419 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2420 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2421 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2422 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2423 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2424 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2425 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2426 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2427 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2428 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2429 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2430 including twice per config file line now..
2431 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2432 and simplfy the rules file.
2433 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2434 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2435 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2437 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2438 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2442 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2445 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2449 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2452 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2456 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2459 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2463 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2466 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2467 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2468 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2469 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2470 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2471 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2475 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2478 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2479 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2480 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2485 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2488 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2489 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2494 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2497 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2498 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2499 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2504 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2507 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2508 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2509 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2513 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2519 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2526 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2529 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2530 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2531 unknown. Closes: #282924
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2535 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2542 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * Spanish man page updates.
2545 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2550 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2556 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2559 * dh_desktop: reindent
2560 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2561 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2565 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2571 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2573 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2577 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2579 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2583 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2586 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2587 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2591 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2597 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2603 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2610 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2613 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2617 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2620 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2621 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2622 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2623 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2624 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2625 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2627 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2628 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2629 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2630 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2631 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2632 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2633 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2634 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2635 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2636 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2637 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2638 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2639 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2640 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2641 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2642 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2646 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2653 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2656 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2660 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2663 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2667 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2670 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2674 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2677 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2681 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2687 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2693 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2699 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2702 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2703 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2704 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2708 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2711 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2715 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2718 but occasionally right and necessary.
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2722 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2725 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2726 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2727 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2728 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2729 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2733 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2736 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2738 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2739 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2740 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2741 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2742 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2743 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2744 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2745 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2746 postinst scripts for udebs.
2747 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2751 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2754 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2756 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2757 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2761 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2767 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2774 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2781 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2784 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2788 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2791 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2795 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2798 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2801 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2802 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2806 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2812 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2815 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2819 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2822 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2823 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2824 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2826 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2828 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2829 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2830 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2834 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2837 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2842 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2845 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2846 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2847 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2852 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2858 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2864 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2867 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2868 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2869 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2870 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2871 associated -dbg packages.
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2875 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2878 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2882 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2885 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2889 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2892 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2896 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2899 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2904 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2907 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2911 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2914 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2919 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2922 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2926 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2930 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2931 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2932 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2933 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2934 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2935 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2936 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2937 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2938 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2939 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2943 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2946 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2951 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2954 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2955 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2959 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2962 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2963 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2968 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2971 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2975 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2978 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2982 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2985 out section number. Closes: #204731
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2989 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2996 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
3002 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
3008 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * Typo, Closes: #203907
3011 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
3012 removal. Closes: #204286
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
3016 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
3019 renaming. Closes: #203548
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
3023 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
3026 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
3027 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
3031 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
3037 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
3043 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
3049 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
3052 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
3053 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
3054 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
3058 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
3061 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
3062 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
3066 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3072 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3079 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3082 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3087 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3090 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3094 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3097 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3099 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3100 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3104 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3107 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3112 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3115 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3119 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3125 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3127 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3131 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3134 it break hard links (see #188663).
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3138 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3141 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3145 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3151 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3155 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3156 debconf-mergetemplates
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3160 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3163 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3167 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3170 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3174 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3177 * Update debhelper(1).
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3181 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3184 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3185 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3186 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3187 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3188 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3192 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3195 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3196 the shell. Closes: #178524
3197 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3201 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3204 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3208 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3211 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3215 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3218 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3219 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3220 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3221 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3226 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3229 files from installation.
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3233 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3236 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3237 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3241 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3244 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3248 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3251 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3255 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3261 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3267 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3271 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3272 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3274 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3278 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3281 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3282 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3283 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3284 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3288 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3291 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3295 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3298 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3299 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3303 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3307 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3312 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3318 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3322 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3323 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3324 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3329 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3332 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3333 practice. Closes: #163303
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3337 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3343 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3350 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3353 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3355 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3356 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3357 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3358 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3359 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3363 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3366 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3371 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3377 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3384 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3387 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3392 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3394 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3398 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3404 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3410 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3417 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3420 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3421 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3422 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3423 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3428 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3434 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3441 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3444 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3445 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3449 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3452 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3453 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3454 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3455 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3456 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3460 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3463 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3465 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3470 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3473 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3477 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3480 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3481 right thing. Closes: #150644
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3485 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * Stupid, evil typo.
3488 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3492 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3499 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3502 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3503 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3508 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3514 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3517 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3521 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3524 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3525 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3530 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3533 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3537 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3543 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3545 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3546 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3547 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3551 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3557 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * Removing perl warning message.
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3563 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3566 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3567 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3568 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3569 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3570 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3571 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3572 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3573 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3577 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3583 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3590 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3593 debconf-mergetemplate.
3594 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3595 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3599 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3602 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3603 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3604 dh_install, which ...
3605 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3606 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3607 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3608 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3609 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3610 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3611 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3612 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3613 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3614 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3615 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3616 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3617 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3618 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3619 other minor changes.
3620 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3621 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3622 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3623 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3624 course there's -X ..)
3625 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3626 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3627 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3629 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3630 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3631 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3632 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3633 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3638 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3644 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3647 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3651 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3653 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3657 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3663 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3669 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3675 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3678 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3679 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3680 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3681 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3683 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3684 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3688 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3694 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3697 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3701 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3704 upset. Closes: #131322
3706 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3708 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3711 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3712 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3713 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3714 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3715 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3716 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3717 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3718 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3719 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3720 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3721 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3722 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3723 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3724 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3725 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3727 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3731 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3733 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3734 - Better indenting of generated code.
3735 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3739 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3741 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3743 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3744 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3745 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3746 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3747 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3748 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3749 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3753 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3756 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3760 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3763 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3764 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3765 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3766 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3767 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3768 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3769 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3770 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3771 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3772 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3773 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3774 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3775 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3776 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3777 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3782 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3788 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3791 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3792 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3796 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3799 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3800 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3804 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3810 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3813 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3814 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3815 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3816 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3817 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3822 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3828 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3831 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3835 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3837 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3838 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3843 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3849 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3852 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3856 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3862 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3866 Also some indentation fixes.
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3870 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3873 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3874 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3875 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3876 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3877 Closes: #106514, #85520
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3881 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3887 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3889 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3893 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3899 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3905 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3911 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3913 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3914 change it in debhelper v4..
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3918 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3920 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3924 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3926 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3927 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3931 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3933 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3934 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3938 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3944 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3947 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3948 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3949 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3950 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3951 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3952 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3953 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3954 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3955 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3956 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3957 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3958 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3962 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3965 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3969 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3976 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3979 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3980 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3981 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3982 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3983 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3984 program those options go to. So, for example,
3985 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3986 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3987 something complex. Closes: #89311
3988 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3992 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3995 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3996 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3997 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
4001 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
4004 through loop. Closes: #98598
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
4008 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * Missing semi-colon.
4011 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
4012 this (dh_* should be called, really).
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
4016 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
4019 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
4020 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
4021 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
4025 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
4028 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
4029 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
4033 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
4036 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
4040 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
4043 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
4044 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
4048 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
4051 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
4052 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
4053 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
4057 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
4060 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
4061 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
4062 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
4066 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4069 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4073 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4079 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4081 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4085 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4091 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4097 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4100 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4104 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4107 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4108 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4109 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4110 followed. Closes: #85483
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4114 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4116 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4117 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4118 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4122 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4124 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4125 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4126 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4127 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4128 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4129 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4130 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4131 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4132 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4133 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4134 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4135 Closes: #88464, #77743
4136 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4137 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4138 us to deal with that gracefully.
4139 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4141 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4142 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4143 a while, Closes: #51225
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4147 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4153 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4156 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4160 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4164 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4169 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4171 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4172 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4173 don't make packlist files.
4174 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4175 debhelper coding standards.
4176 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4177 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4181 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4184 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4188 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4191 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4192 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4193 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4194 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4195 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4196 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4197 but is mildly deprecated.
4198 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4199 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4200 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4201 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4202 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4203 switching to statoverrides..
4204 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4205 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4206 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4207 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4208 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4209 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4211 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4212 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4213 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4214 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4215 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4216 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4217 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4218 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4219 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4221 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4222 variable names, pod man pages).
4223 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4224 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4225 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4226 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4227 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4228 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4229 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4233 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4235 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4239 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4241 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4246 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4248 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4249 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4253 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4255 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4256 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4257 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4261 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4263 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4264 they were previously ignored.
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4268 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4270 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4271 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4275 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4277 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4278 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4279 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4283 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4285 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4289 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4291 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4292 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4296 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4298 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4299 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4300 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4301 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4302 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4303 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4304 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4305 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4306 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4307 it is an obsolete program.
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4311 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4313 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4317 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4321 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4323 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4327 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4329 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4331 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4333 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4337 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4343 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * typo: Closes, #78567
4347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4349 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4351 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4355 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4357 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4361 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4363 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4364 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4365 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4366 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4367 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4368 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4372 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4374 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4375 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4380 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4383 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4384 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4385 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4386 backwards-compatibility.
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4390 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4393 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4394 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4395 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4396 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4397 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4398 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4400 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4401 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4402 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4404 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4406 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4407 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4408 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4409 should now be raised to severity important..
4410 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4411 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4415 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4418 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4423 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4429 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4435 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4437 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4441 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4448 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4451 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4452 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4453 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4454 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4458 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4460 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4464 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4466 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4467 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4468 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4469 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4470 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4471 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4472 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4477 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4480 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4484 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4490 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4493 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4498 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4501 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4502 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4503 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4504 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4508 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4510 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4512 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4515 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4518 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4519 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4522 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4524 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4525 the TODO entry about it.
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4529 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4536 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4539 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4540 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4544 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4546 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4547 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4548 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4549 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4550 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4554 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4560 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4567 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4570 (this appears to be logal).
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4574 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4577 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4578 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4579 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4580 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4584 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4586 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4590 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4592 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4593 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4594 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4595 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4596 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4600 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4606 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4608 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4609 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4613 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4620 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4623 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4624 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4625 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4630 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4637 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4639 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4643 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4646 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4647 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4648 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4649 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4650 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4651 notice until v2 is complete.
4652 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
4653 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4654 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4655 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4656 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4657 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4659 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4660 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4661 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4662 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4666 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4672 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4679 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4682 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4686 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4688 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4693 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4695 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4696 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4697 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4698 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4699 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4704 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4707 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4708 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4709 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4714 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4716 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4717 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4718 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4722 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4725 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4729 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4732 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4736 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4738 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4743 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4745 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4746 depend on the build and install targets.
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4750 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4753 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4757 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4759 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4764 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4766 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4770 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4772 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4776 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4779 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4780 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4781 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4782 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4783 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4784 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4786 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4787 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4788 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4789 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4790 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4791 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4792 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4796 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4798 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4802 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4808 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4810 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4811 right place. Closes: #55065
4813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4815 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4817 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4822 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4824 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4825 * Copyright date updates.
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4829 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4832 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4837 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4843 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4850 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4852 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4856 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4858 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4862 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4868 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4871 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4872 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4873 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4874 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4875 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4876 bits until all files have been registered.
4878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4880 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4882 * dh_installmanpages:
4883 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4884 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4885 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4886 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4887 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4888 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4889 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4890 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4891 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4892 otherwise change the result at all.
4894 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4895 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4896 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4897 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4898 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4903 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4905 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4909 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4912 act on files that don't exist.
4913 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4914 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4915 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4917 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4918 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4919 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4920 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4924 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4926 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4930 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4936 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4939 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4943 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4946 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4948 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4949 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4950 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4954 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4956 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4957 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4958 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4959 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4960 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4961 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4962 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4963 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4965 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4967 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4971 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4978 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4980 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4984 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4990 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4992 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4993 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4997 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
5003 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
5009 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
5012 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
5013 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
5014 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
5015 I made some changes, though:
5016 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
5017 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
5018 that is a clear violation of policy.
5019 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
5020 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
5021 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
5022 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
5023 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
5024 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
5025 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
5026 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
5027 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
5029 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
5033 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
5039 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
5042 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
5044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
5046 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5048 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
5049 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
5050 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
5053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
5055 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5057 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
5061 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5063 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
5068 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5071 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5072 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5073 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5074 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5075 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5076 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5077 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5081 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5083 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5087 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5091 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5092 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5096 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5098 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5102 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5105 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5109 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5112 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5113 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5117 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5119 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5124 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5128 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5132 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5135 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5136 for the dependancies to be generated.
5138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5140 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5142 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5143 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5147 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5149 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5150 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5151 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5152 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5157 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5160 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5161 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5165 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5167 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5171 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5177 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5180 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5184 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5190 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5193 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5194 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5195 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5196 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5197 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5198 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5199 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5200 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5201 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5202 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5203 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5204 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5208 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5210 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5211 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5212 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5214 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5215 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5216 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5217 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5218 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5219 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5221 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5222 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5226 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5229 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5233 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5240 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5242 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5243 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5248 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5250 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5251 for building debhelper.
5252 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5256 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5263 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5265 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5266 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5270 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5273 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5274 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5275 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5276 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5277 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5278 it's always available.
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5282 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5285 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5286 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5287 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5291 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5294 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5295 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5299 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5301 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5305 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5307 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5308 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5312 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5314 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5318 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5320 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5321 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5322 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5323 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5327 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5329 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5330 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5335 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5338 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5339 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5341 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5342 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5346 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5348 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5352 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5358 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5361 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5365 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5368 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5369 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5371 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5375 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5377 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5378 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5379 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5380 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5384 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5387 things if CDPATH is set.
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5391 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5397 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5400 seems to make sense for the transition.
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5404 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5407 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5412 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5414 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5415 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5416 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5420 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5423 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5427 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5430 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5431 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5432 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5433 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5437 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5443 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5446 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5447 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5448 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5449 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5450 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5451 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5452 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5453 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5454 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5455 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
5458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5460 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5462 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5463 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5464 * README: mention doc/v2
5465 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5466 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5470 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5472 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5473 be using this script RSN.
5475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5477 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5479 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5480 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5481 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5482 more than 1 init script.
5484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5486 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5488 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5489 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5493 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5495 * Changed perl version detection.
5496 * Changed call to find.
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5500 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5503 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5505 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5510 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5512 * Really include dh_installpam.
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5516 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5518 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5519 * Wrote man page for same.
5521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5523 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5525 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5526 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5527 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5532 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5534 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5539 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5542 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5543 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5544 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5545 x bit was being set!
5547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5549 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5551 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5552 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5553 well. (Closes: 38900)
5555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5557 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5559 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5560 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5561 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5565 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5567 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5571 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5578 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5584 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5587 help from Julian Gilbey.
5588 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5589 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5590 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5591 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5592 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5593 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5594 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5599 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5601 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5605 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5612 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5618 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5620 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5624 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5626 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5627 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5631 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5633 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5634 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5638 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5640 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5641 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5645 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5647 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5651 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5654 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5658 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5664 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5670 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5673 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5674 may be deleted. (#35845)
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5678 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * Various man page enhancements.
5681 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5686 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5689 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5690 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5694 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5696 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5697 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5698 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5699 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5701 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5702 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5707 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5709 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5713 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * Another very minor typo fix.
5717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5719 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5721 * Very minor typo fix.
5723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5725 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5727 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5728 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5729 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5733 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5735 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5739 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5741 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5742 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5743 variables properly (#34850).
5745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5747 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5749 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5753 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5755 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5756 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5757 (automatically generated by build process).
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5761 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5763 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5767 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5769 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5770 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5771 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5773 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5777 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5779 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5780 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5784 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5786 * README: minor typo fix.
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5790 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5792 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5793 leave it at that. :-)
5795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5797 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5799 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5803 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5805 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5809 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5811 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5812 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5813 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5814 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5818 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5821 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5825 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5827 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5828 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5832 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5834 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5835 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5836 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5837 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5838 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5842 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5844 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5845 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5846 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5847 Craig Small for spotting this.
5849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5851 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5853 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5854 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5855 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5859 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5861 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5865 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5867 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5868 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5872 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5874 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5875 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5876 working on the last version of debhelper.
5878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5880 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5882 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5883 being made. (#23255)
5885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5887 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5889 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5893 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5895 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5896 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5900 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5902 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5903 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5904 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5905 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5906 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5910 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5912 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5913 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5914 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5915 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5916 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5918 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5919 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5921 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5926 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5928 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5932 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5934 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5938 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5940 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5941 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5942 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5943 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5944 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5945 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5946 suidregister actually supports it.
5947 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5948 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5952 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5954 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5959 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5961 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5962 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5963 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5964 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5965 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5966 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5967 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5968 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5972 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5974 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5975 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5979 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5981 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5982 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5983 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5984 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5985 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5989 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5991 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5992 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5994 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5995 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5996 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5997 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5998 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5999 effect, either. (#30118)
6001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
6003 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
6005 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
6007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
6009 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
6011 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
6012 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
6013 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
6015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
6017 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
6019 * Spelling and typo fixes.
6021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
6023 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
6025 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
6026 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
6027 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
6028 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
6029 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
6031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
6033 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
6035 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
6036 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
6037 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
6039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
6041 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
6043 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
6045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
6047 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
6049 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
6050 packages, painlessly.
6052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
6054 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
6056 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
6058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
6060 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
6062 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
6064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
6066 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
6068 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6072 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6074 * The perl conversion is complete.
6076 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6078 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6079 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6080 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6085 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6087 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6088 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6089 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6090 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6094 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6096 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6097 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6099 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6101 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6102 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6106 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6108 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6109 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6110 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6114 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6116 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6120 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6122 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6123 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6124 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6125 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6126 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6127 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6131 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6133 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6134 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6135 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6136 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6137 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6141 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6143 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6144 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6148 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6150 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6151 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6152 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6153 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6154 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6155 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6156 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6157 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6158 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6162 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6164 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6168 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6170 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6171 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6172 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6173 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6178 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6180 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6181 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6185 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6187 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6188 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6192 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6194 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6195 sections of shared libraries.
6196 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6197 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6198 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6199 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6200 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6201 things you don't want them to.
6202 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6203 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6207 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6209 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6210 shared libraries. (#26414)
6212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6214 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6216 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6217 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6218 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6219 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6223 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6225 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6227 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6229 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6230 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6231 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6232 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6233 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6237 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6239 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6240 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6244 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6246 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6247 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6248 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6253 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6255 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6256 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6260 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6262 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6263 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6264 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6265 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6266 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6267 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6269 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6270 remove debian/files properly.
6271 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6272 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6273 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6274 * Removed bogus menu file.
6276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6278 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6280 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6281 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6285 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6287 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6288 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6289 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6290 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6291 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6292 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6293 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6297 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6299 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6300 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6301 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6302 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6303 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6307 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6309 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6314 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6316 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6317 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6318 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6320 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6321 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6322 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6323 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6324 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6325 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6329 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6331 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6332 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6333 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6334 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6335 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6336 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6337 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6338 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6339 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6340 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6341 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6342 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6343 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6344 passed any switches.
6345 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6349 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6351 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6352 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6353 at all for a long while.
6354 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6355 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6356 large chunks in the process.
6357 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6358 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6359 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6364 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6366 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6367 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6369 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6374 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6376 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6377 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6378 that don't always have the same files in them.
6379 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6380 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6381 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6385 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6387 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6389 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6390 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6391 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6392 updating 27 man pages.
6393 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6394 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6395 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6396 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6397 programs act on. (#25247)
6399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6401 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6405 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6406 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6407 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6408 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6409 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6410 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6415 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6417 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6422 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6424 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6429 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6431 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6432 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6436 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6438 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6442 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6444 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6445 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6446 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6447 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6448 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6449 package by accident.
6450 * Is version 1.0 next?
6452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6454 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6456 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6457 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6458 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6462 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6464 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6465 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6466 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6467 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6468 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6469 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6471 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6476 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6478 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6479 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6480 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6484 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6486 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6487 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6491 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6493 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6494 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6495 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6500 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6502 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6506 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6508 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6509 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6510 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6515 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6517 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6521 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6523 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6524 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6525 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6526 past week. Thanks, guys!
6528 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6529 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6530 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6531 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6532 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6533 would do in the same situation.
6534 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6535 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6537 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6539 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6540 permissions changed.
6541 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6542 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6543 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6544 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6545 files are treated identically.
6546 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6547 * Minor man page fixes.
6548 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6549 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6550 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6554 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6556 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6557 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6558 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6559 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6560 use -X multiple times, too.
6561 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6562 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6566 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6568 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6569 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6570 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6574 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6576 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6577 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6581 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6583 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6584 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6585 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6586 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6587 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6588 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6589 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6590 shape if you're starting a new package.
6592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6594 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6596 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6597 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6601 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6603 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6604 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6605 because of missing symlinks.
6607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6609 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6611 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6615 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6617 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6618 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6619 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6620 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6621 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6622 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6624 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6625 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6629 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6631 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6632 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6633 to be changed after the fact :-)
6634 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6638 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6640 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6641 no version string after the -V.
6643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6645 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6647 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6648 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6653 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6655 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6656 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6660 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6662 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6663 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6664 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6665 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6666 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6667 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6668 I always welcome corrections!
6670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6672 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6674 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6678 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6680 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6681 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6682 * Documented this new switch.
6684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6686 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6688 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6689 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6690 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6691 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6692 no packages use the old behavior.
6694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6696 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6698 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6699 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6700 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6704 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6706 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6707 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6711 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6713 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6717 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6719 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6720 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6724 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6726 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6727 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6728 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6729 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6733 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6735 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6739 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6741 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6742 into the source package by accident.
6744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6746 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6748 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6749 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6750 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6751 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6752 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6753 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6754 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6759 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6761 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6763 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6764 inspired to implement some of it.
6765 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6769 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6771 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6772 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6776 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6778 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6779 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6780 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6784 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6786 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6787 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6788 have done.) (#17598)
6790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6792 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6794 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6798 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6800 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6804 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6806 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6807 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6811 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6813 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6814 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6815 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6819 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6821 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6822 argument processor in perl.
6823 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6824 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6825 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6826 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6830 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6832 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6833 type directories. (#16933)
6834 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6835 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6836 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6837 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6838 are supported. (#16935)
6839 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6844 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6846 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6847 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6851 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6853 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6855 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6856 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6857 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6858 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6859 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6860 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6864 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6866 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6867 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6868 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6870 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6871 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6872 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6873 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6874 a given package, or -i or -a.
6875 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6876 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6877 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6878 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6879 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6880 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6881 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6882 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6883 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6885 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6886 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6887 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6891 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6893 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6894 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6895 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6900 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6902 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6903 does not have a section.
6905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6907 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6909 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6910 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6911 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6912 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6916 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6918 * Fixed typo #16215.
6920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6922 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6924 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6925 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6926 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6927 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6928 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6929 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6934 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6936 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6937 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6938 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6939 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6944 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6946 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6950 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6952 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6956 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6958 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6959 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6960 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6961 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6962 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6963 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6964 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6968 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6970 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6974 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6976 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6977 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6981 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6983 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6984 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6985 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6986 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6990 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6992 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6993 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6997 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6999 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
7001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
7003 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
7005 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
7006 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
7008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
7010 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
7012 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
7013 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
7015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
7017 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
7019 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
7021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
7023 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
7025 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
7026 postinst, postrm, etc.
7028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
7030 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
7032 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
7034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
7036 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
7038 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
7039 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
7040 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
7041 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
7042 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
7043 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
7045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
7047 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
7049 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
7050 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
7051 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
7053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
7055 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
7057 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
7058 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
7060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
7062 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
7064 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
7065 installing package files into.
7066 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7071 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7073 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7075 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7079 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7081 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7085 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7087 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7088 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7092 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7094 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7095 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7096 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7097 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7098 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7102 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7104 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7105 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7106 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7107 multiple binary packages.
7108 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7109 should rebuild them with this version.
7110 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7114 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7116 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7117 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7121 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7123 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7124 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7128 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7130 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7131 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7132 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7133 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7134 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7135 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7136 debian/README.debian.
7137 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7138 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7139 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7140 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7141 in a few situations.)
7143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7145 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7147 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7151 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7153 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7157 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7159 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7160 * Fixed several man pages.
7162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7164 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7166 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7167 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7168 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7172 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7174 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7175 is ready for general use.
7176 * Added man pages for all commands.
7177 * Multiple binary package support.
7178 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7179 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7180 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7182 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7183 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7184 auto-installed as parameters.
7185 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7187 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7190 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7191 the package build directory it is to act on.
7192 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7193 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7194 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7198 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7200 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7201 ready to replace debstd.
7203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400