+debhelper (7.2.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
+ stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
+ scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
+ * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
+ doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
+ * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
+ Closes: #326874
+ * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
+ * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
+ of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
+ * Compatability level 4 is now deprecated.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
+
+debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
+ syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
+ * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
+ cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
+ * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
+ - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
+ conffile's name.
+ - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
+
+debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
+
+ * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
+
+debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
+
+ * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
+ * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
+ * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
+ * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
+ * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
+ * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
+ fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
+ * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
+ when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
+ * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
+ include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
+
+debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
+ * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
+ Closes: #504742
+ * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
+ * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
+ such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
+ to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
+ options.
+ (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
+ warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
+
+debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
+ with ".txt". Closes: #498460
+ * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
+ complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
+ * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
+ * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
+ by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
+ Closes: #370823
+ * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
+ that uses them. Affected options are:
+ -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
+ --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
+ --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
+ --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
+ --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
+ --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
+ --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
+ * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
+ they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
+ * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
+ use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
+ option. This will be converted back to an error later.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
+
+debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
+ Closes: #517617
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
+
+debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
+
+debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
+ to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
+ use.
+ * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
+ for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
+ (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
+ * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
+ eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
+ than the old method.
+ * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
+ with dh anymore.
+ * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
+ which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
+ rules (see bug #509756).
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
+
+debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ [ Per Olofsson ]
+ * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
+
+ [ Joey Hess ]
+ * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
+ * Typo. Closes: #493062
+ * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
+ if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
+
+debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
+ * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
+ empty files. Closes: #490937
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
+
+debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
+
+debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
+ disable it.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
+
+debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
+ being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
+ source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
+ debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
+ packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
+ Closes: #487938
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
+
+debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
+ the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
+ always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
+ * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
+
+debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
+ * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
+ * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
+ dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
+ it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
+ * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
+
+debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
+ Closes: #484772
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
+
+debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
+ * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
+ daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
+ its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
+ while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
+ in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
+ * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
+ * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
+ * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
+ * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
+
+debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
+ can use to insert them into a command sequence.
+ (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
+ * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
+ So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
+ cli-common.
+ * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
+ sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
+ breaking backwards compatability.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
+
+debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
+ message in perl 5.10.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
+
+debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
+
+debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Convert copyright file to new format.
+ * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
+
+debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
+ * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
+
+debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
+ * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
+ * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
+ run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
+ daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
+ dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
+ only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
+ logging by dh_listpackages.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
+
+debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
+ run and there are no packages of that type.
+ * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
+ packages to avoid interactive prompts.
+ * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
+ * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
+ python packages.
+ * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
+ than just looking for some predefined common cases.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
+
+debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
+ * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
+ and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
+
+debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
+ This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
+ lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
+ needed.
+ * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
+ Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
+ options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
+ * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
+ running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
+ planned but not yet implemented.)
+ * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
+ if the Makefile has such a target.
+ * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
+ or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
+ * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
+ setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
+ MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
+ but not yet implemented.)
+ * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
+ recommended default, especially when using dh.
+ * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
+ files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
+ allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
+ special parameters.
+ * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
+ therein.
+ * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
+ * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
+ all the new toys.
+ * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
+ necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
+ * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
+ deprecated later).
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
+
+debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
+ also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
+ extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
+
+debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
+ pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
+ filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
+
+debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
+
+debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
+
+debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
+ just those installed by the program.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
+
+debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
+ lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
+ (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
+
+debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
+ The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
+ time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
+ * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
+ (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
+
+debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
+ Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
+ * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
+
+debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
+ * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
+ * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
+
+debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
+ with policy. Closes: #461392
+ * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
+ which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
+ only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
+ symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
+ implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
+
+debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
+ Closes: #460340, #460351
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
+
+debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
+ * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
+ install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
+ enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
+ * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
+
+debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
+ * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
+ much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
+ * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
+ to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
+ has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
+ package build directory won't work.
+ * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
+ dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
+ affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
+ * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
+ * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
+ mode. Closes: #459426
+ * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
+ level.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
+
+debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
+ the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
+
+debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
+ Closes: #452337
+ * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
+ Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
+ * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
+ properly support includes. Closes: #452717
+ * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
+ isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
+
+debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
+ * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
+ Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
+ Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
+ http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
+
+debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
+ * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
+ about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
+ * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
+ * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
+ call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
+
+debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
+ debian/package.triggers files.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
+
+debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
+ a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
+
debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
* Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
projects / debhelper.git / blobdiff