1 debhelper (9.20120609) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_shlibdeps: Warn if -V flag is passed, to avoid it accidentially being
4 used here rather than in dh_makeshlibs. Closes: #680339
5 * dh_lintian: Source overrides doc improvement. Closes: #683941
6 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #685538
7 * Updated French man page translation. Closes: #685560
8 * Updated Spanish man page translation. Closes: #686291
9 * dh_installmime: No longer makes maintainer scripts run update-mime and
10 update-mime-database, that is now handled by triggers. Closes: #684689
11 Thanks, Charles Plessy
12 * python distutils buildsystem: Propigate failure of pyversions.
13 Closes: #683551 Thanks, Clint Byrum
14 * python distutils buildsystem: When checking if a version of python is
15 installed, don't trust the presense of the executable, as
16 a python2.X-minimal package may provide it while not having
17 distutils installed. Closes: #683557
18 * dh_icons: Improve documentation. Closes: #684895
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:51:07 -0600
22 debhelper (9.20120830) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh_installcatalogs: Adjust catalog conffile conversion to avoid
25 dpkg conffile prompt when upgrading from a removed package.
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:04:10 -0400
30 debhelper (9.20120608) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh: When there's an -indep override target without -arch, or vice versa,
33 avoid acting on packages covered by the override target when running
34 the command for packages not covered by it. Closes: #676462
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:15:48 -0400
38 debhelper (9.20120528) unstable; urgency=low
40 * dh_installcatalogs: Turn /etc/sgml/$package.cat into conffiles
41 and introduce dependency on trigger-based sgml-base. Closes: #477751
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 May 2012 13:40:26 -0400
46 debhelper (9.20120523) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #673629 Thanks, Omar Campagne
49 * Set Multi-Arch: foreign. Closes: #674193
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 May 2012 14:55:48 -0400
53 debhelper (9.20120518) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Fix versioned dependency on dpkg for xz options. Closes: #672895
56 * dh_link: Doc improvement. Closes: #672988
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 May 2012 11:05:03 -0400
60 debhelper (9.20120513) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Improve -v logging. Closes: #672448
63 * dh_builddeb: Build udebs with xz compression, level 1, extreme strategy.
64 This has been chosen to not need any more memory or cpu when uncompressing,
65 while yeilding the best compressions for udebs. Thanks, Philipp Kern.
66 * Depend on a new enough dpkg for above features. Backporters will need
67 to revert these changes.
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 May 2012 13:09:42 -0400
71 debhelper (9.20120509) unstable; urgency=low
73 * dh_installman: Recognize sections from mdoc .Dt entries. Closes: #670210
75 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #671598
76 * dh_install: Reorder documentation for clarity. Closes: #672109
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 May 2012 12:59:15 -0400
80 debhelper (9.20120419) unstable; urgency=low
82 * Fix compat level checking for cmake. Closes: #669181
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:35 -0400
86 debhelper (9.20120418) unstable; urgency=low
88 * cmake: Only pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS in v9.
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:39 -0400
92 debhelper (9.20120417) unstable; urgency=low
94 * cmake: Pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS. Closes: #668813
95 Thanks, Simon Ruderich for the patch and for verifying no affected
96 package is broken by this change.
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:29 -0400
100 debhelper (9.20120410) unstable; urgency=low
103 * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891
104 * Conflict with too old automake for AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. Closes: #666901
105 * dh_md5sums: Don't skip DEBIAN directories other than the control files
109 * dh_installinit: rework upstart handling to comply with new policy
110 proposal; packages will ship both an init script and an upstart job,
111 instead of just an upstart job and a symlink to a compat wrapper.
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:51:15 -0400
116 debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low
118 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
119 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
120 Added to interface documentation.
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400
125 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
127 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
131 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
133 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
134 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
135 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
136 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
138 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
139 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
140 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
141 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
142 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
147 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
150 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
151 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
152 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
153 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
154 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
155 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
159 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
161 * Typo. Closes: #653006
162 * Typo. Closes: #653339
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
166 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
169 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
170 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
171 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
172 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
173 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
177 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
180 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
181 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
182 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
183 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
184 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
185 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
186 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
190 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
196 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
198 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
199 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
200 may need to disable this.
201 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
202 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
203 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
204 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
208 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
210 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
211 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
212 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
216 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
218 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
219 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
220 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
222 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
223 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
224 to dh. Closes: #643069
225 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
226 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
230 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
232 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
233 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
234 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
235 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
236 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
238 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
239 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
240 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
242 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
243 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
244 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
245 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
246 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
247 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
248 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
249 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
250 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
251 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
252 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
253 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
254 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
255 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
256 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
260 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
267 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
269 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
270 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
272 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
278 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
280 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
281 Use override targets instead.
282 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
283 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
284 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
285 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
286 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
287 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
288 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
289 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
290 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
291 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
296 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
298 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
299 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
303 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
305 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
309 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
311 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
312 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
313 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
314 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
315 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
316 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
317 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
321 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
323 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
324 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
325 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
326 the targets. Closes: #629139
327 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
328 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
329 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
330 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
331 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
332 are already set to other values will not be changed.
334 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
335 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
336 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
337 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
338 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
343 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
345 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
349 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
351 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
352 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
353 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
357 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
359 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
360 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
361 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
362 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
363 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
364 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
365 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
366 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
371 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
374 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
375 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
376 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
378 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
379 changes may be added to that mode.
380 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
381 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
382 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
383 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
384 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
385 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
386 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
387 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
388 * Removed old example rules files.
389 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
393 * update french translation.
394 * Fix french misspelling.
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
398 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
400 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
401 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
405 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
407 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
408 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
409 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
410 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
411 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
412 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
413 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
414 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
418 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
421 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
422 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
423 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
424 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
425 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
426 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
428 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
429 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
430 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
431 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
432 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
433 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
434 (Thanks, David Prévot)
435 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
436 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
437 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
438 target fails. Closes: #601037
439 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
441 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
442 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
443 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
444 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
445 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
447 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
448 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
450 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
451 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
452 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
454 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
456 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
459 * update french translation.
460 * Fix french misspelling.
461 * French translation update after massive man page typography
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
465 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
468 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
471 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
475 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
477 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
481 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
483 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
484 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
485 introduced by the fix to #527990.
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
489 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
492 changes are planned for that mode.
493 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
494 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
495 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
496 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
497 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
498 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
499 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
500 (genesis) still uses them.
501 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
502 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
503 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
504 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
505 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
506 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
507 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
508 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
509 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
510 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
511 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
512 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
513 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
514 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
515 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
516 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
517 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
518 commands. (See #570039)
519 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
521 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
526 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
528 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
530 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
531 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
532 in control file or debhelper config files.
533 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
537 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
539 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
540 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
541 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
545 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
547 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
548 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
552 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
554 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
555 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
556 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
560 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Updated French translation.
563 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
564 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
565 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
566 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
568 * Typo. Closes: #571968
569 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
570 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
571 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
572 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
573 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
574 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
575 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
576 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
577 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
579 * dh: Improve documentation.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
583 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
585 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
586 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
587 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
591 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
593 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
594 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
598 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
600 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
601 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
605 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
607 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
608 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
609 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
610 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
611 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
612 options that they do not support.
613 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
614 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
615 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
616 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
617 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
618 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
623 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
625 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
627 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
628 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
629 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
630 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
631 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
632 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
633 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
634 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
635 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
639 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
642 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
643 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
644 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
645 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
649 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Typo. Closes: #558654
652 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
653 installed. Closes: #558782
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
657 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
660 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
661 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
662 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
663 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
664 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
668 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
670 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
671 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
672 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
673 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
677 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
679 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
680 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
681 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
685 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
687 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
691 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
693 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
694 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
695 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
696 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
697 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
698 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
699 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
700 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
701 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
702 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
703 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
704 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
705 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
706 time soon.) Closes: #554509
707 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
709 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
710 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
711 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
712 document id. Closes: #555677
713 * Typo. Closes: #555659
714 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
715 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
716 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
717 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
719 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
720 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
721 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
726 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
729 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
730 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
731 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
732 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
733 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
734 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
735 translation (#494300 part 2)
738 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
740 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
741 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
742 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
743 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
744 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
748 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
750 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
751 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
752 (It was only run once due to logging.)
753 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
754 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
755 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
756 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
757 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
758 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
759 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
760 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
761 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
762 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
766 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
769 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
770 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
773 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
774 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
778 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
780 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
781 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
782 flag with arch all/any packages.
783 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
784 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
785 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
786 situation. Closes: #540794
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
790 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
792 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
794 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
795 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
796 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
797 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
798 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
801 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
802 the default. Closes: #538201
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
807 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
809 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
811 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
812 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
813 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
814 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
815 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
817 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
818 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
819 * Above Closes: #491117
820 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
825 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
828 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
831 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
832 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
833 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
837 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
840 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
841 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
842 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
843 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
844 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
849 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
851 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
852 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
853 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
857 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
859 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
863 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
865 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
866 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
868 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
869 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
870 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
874 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
876 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
877 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
881 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
883 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
887 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
889 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
890 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
891 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
896 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
898 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
902 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
905 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
906 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
907 created by using `python' first during build and install.
909 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
914 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
916 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
920 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
922 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
923 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
927 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
929 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
933 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
935 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
939 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
941 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
942 contributed by Modestas Vainius
943 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
944 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
945 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
946 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
947 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
948 that support it. Closes: #480577
949 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
950 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
951 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
953 - Adds support for cmake.
954 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
955 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
957 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
959 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
960 that use them. The options are:
961 --sourcedir, --destdir
962 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
963 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
964 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
965 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
966 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
970 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
976 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
978 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
979 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
980 default. Closes: #537140
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
984 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
986 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
987 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
988 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
992 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
994 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
995 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
999 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
1002 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
1006 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
1009 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
1011 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
1012 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
1013 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
1017 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
1020 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
1021 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
1022 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
1026 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
1029 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
1030 warning or deprecation message.
1031 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
1032 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
1033 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
1034 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
1035 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
1036 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
1037 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
1038 Closes: #534639, #357434
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
1042 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
1048 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
1051 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
1052 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
1053 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
1054 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
1056 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
1057 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
1058 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
1062 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
1068 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
1075 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
1078 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
1082 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
1086 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
1087 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
1089 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
1090 file support. Closes: #494914
1091 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
1095 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
1098 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
1099 parameters. Closes: #527256
1100 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
1101 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
1102 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
1106 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
1109 (Patch from #459548)
1110 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
1111 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
1112 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1116 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1119 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1120 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1121 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1125 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1128 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1129 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1131 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1132 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1133 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1137 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1141 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1145 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1148 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1149 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1150 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1151 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1156 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1162 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1165 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1166 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1167 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1168 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1169 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1171 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1172 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1173 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1174 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1175 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1176 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1180 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1183 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1184 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1185 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1186 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1187 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1189 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1193 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1195 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1199 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1201 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1202 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1203 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1204 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1205 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1206 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1207 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1208 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1209 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1210 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1211 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1215 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1217 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1218 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1220 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1221 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1222 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1223 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1225 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1226 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1230 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1232 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1233 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1234 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1235 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1236 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1237 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1238 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1240 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1241 that uses them. Affected options are:
1242 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1243 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1244 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1245 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1246 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1247 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1248 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1249 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1250 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1251 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1252 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1253 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1257 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1264 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1270 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1273 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1275 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1276 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1277 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1278 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1279 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1280 than the old method.
1281 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1283 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1284 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1285 rules (see bug #509756).
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1289 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1295 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1296 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1297 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1298 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1302 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1305 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1306 empty files. Closes: #490937
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1310 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1316 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1323 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1326 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1327 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1328 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1329 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1334 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1336 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1337 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1338 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1339 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1343 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1346 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1347 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1348 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1349 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1350 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1354 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1361 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1364 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1365 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1366 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1367 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1368 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1369 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1370 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1371 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1372 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1376 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1379 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1380 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1381 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1382 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1384 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1385 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1386 breaking backwards compatibility.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1390 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1393 message in perl 5.10.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1397 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1403 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1406 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1410 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1413 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1417 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1420 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1421 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1422 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1423 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1424 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1425 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1426 logging by dh_listpackages.
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1430 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1433 run and there are no packages of that type.
1434 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1435 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1436 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1437 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1439 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1440 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1444 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1447 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1448 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1452 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1455 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1456 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1458 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1459 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1460 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1461 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1462 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1463 planned but not yet implemented.)
1464 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1465 if the Makefile has such a target.
1466 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1467 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1468 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1469 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1470 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1471 but not yet implemented.)
1472 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1473 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1474 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1475 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1476 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1478 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1480 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1481 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1483 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1484 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1485 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1490 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1493 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1494 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1498 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1500 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1501 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1502 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1506 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1512 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1518 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1521 just those installed by the program.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1525 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1528 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1529 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1533 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1536 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1537 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1538 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1539 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1543 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1546 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1547 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1551 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1554 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1555 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1559 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1562 with policy. Closes: #461392
1563 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1564 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1565 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1566 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1567 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1571 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1574 Closes: #460340, #460351
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1578 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1581 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1582 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1583 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1584 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1588 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1591 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1592 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1593 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1594 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1595 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1596 package build directory won't work.
1597 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1598 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1599 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1600 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1601 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1602 mode. Closes: #459426
1603 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1608 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1611 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1615 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1619 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1620 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1621 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1622 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1623 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1624 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1628 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1631 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1632 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1633 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1634 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1638 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1641 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1642 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1643 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1644 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1645 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1649 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1652 debian/package.triggers files.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1656 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1659 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1663 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1666 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1667 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1668 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1669 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1674 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1677 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1681 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1684 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1685 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1687 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1692 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1696 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1697 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1698 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1702 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1709 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1716 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1719 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1721 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1722 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1723 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1725 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1726 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1727 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1731 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1734 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1735 * Update urls to web page.
1736 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1737 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1738 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1739 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1743 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1746 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1747 - typo in alternatives call
1748 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1750 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1751 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1755 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1758 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1763 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1769 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1775 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1778 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1780 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1781 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1782 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1783 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1784 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1785 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1786 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1787 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1788 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1789 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1790 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1794 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1797 package install. Closes: #415717
1798 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1799 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1800 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1801 script and then remove the python files.
1802 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1803 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1804 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1805 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1806 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1807 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1808 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1809 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1810 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1811 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1812 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1813 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1814 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1818 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Correct typo in french translation
1824 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1825 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1827 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1829 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1830 Closes: #406921, #381940
1831 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1833 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1834 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1835 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1836 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1837 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1838 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1839 specified). Closes: #381851
1840 * Misc minor changes.
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1844 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1851 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1852 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1856 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1862 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1863 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1866 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1867 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1869 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1870 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1871 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1872 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1876 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1879 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1882 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1886 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1892 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1898 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1899 a difficult situation.
1900 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1901 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1902 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1903 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1904 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1905 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1906 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1907 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1908 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1909 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1913 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Non-maintainer upload.
1916 * Update of dh_python
1917 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1918 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1920 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1921 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1922 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1923 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1924 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1926 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1928 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * Non-maintainer upload.
1931 * Update of dh_python
1932 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1933 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1934 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1935 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1936 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1937 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1938 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1939 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1940 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1941 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1943 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1944 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1945 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1946 the not too-distant future).
1947 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1948 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1949 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1950 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1951 thus made the build fail.
1953 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1955 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Non-maintainer upload.
1958 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1960 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1962 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1965 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1966 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1967 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1968 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1969 package. Closes: #301424
1970 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1971 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1972 fonts). Closes: #372686
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1976 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1982 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1983 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1984 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1985 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1986 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1987 above, but already depends on that.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1991 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1994 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1995 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1996 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1997 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1998 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
2002 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
2008 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
2014 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
2015 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
2019 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
2022 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
2026 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
2030 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
2031 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
2032 new version (0.24.1).
2033 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
2034 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
2037 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
2038 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
2039 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
2040 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
2041 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
2042 new directory on their own.
2043 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
2044 * Fix broken directory removal code.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
2048 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
2051 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
2052 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
2053 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
2054 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
2058 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
2061 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
2062 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
2063 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
2064 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
2065 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
2069 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
2075 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * Typo. Closes: #358904
2079 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
2080 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
2084 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2085 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
2089 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
2091 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
2092 || exit 0 instead of the intended
2094 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
2095 ignored. Closes: #337664
2097 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
2102 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
2108 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
2113 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
2114 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2115 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2116 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2117 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2118 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2119 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2123 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2126 version. Closes: #350607
2127 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2128 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2129 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2130 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2134 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2137 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2138 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2139 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2143 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2150 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2156 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2159 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2163 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2166 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2167 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2168 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2169 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2170 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2171 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2175 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2178 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2179 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2184 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2187 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2191 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2194 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2198 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2201 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2202 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2203 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2204 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2205 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2206 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2210 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2214 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2215 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2216 link. Closes: #346405
2217 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2219 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2220 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2221 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2222 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2223 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2224 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2225 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2229 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2236 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2242 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2245 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2249 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2252 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2257 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2261 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2262 installed. Closes: #342033
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2266 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2269 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2270 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2271 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2276 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2282 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2288 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2292 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2293 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2294 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2298 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2301 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2306 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2313 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2319 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2322 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2323 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2324 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2325 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2326 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2327 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2328 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2330 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2334 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2337 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2338 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2342 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2345 in standard man dirs.
2346 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2350 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2356 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2359 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2364 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2371 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2378 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2381 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2382 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2386 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2389 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2390 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2391 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2393 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2395 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2401 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2407 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2410 mode. Closes: #324161
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2414 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2417 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2418 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2419 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2420 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2425 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2428 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2429 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2430 is necesary for sanity.
2431 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2432 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2437 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2439 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2440 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2444 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2447 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2451 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2457 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2460 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2461 released, so use at your own risk.
2462 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2463 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2465 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2466 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2467 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2468 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2469 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2470 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2471 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2472 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2473 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2474 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2475 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2476 including twice per config file line now..
2477 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2478 and simplfy the rules file.
2479 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2480 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2481 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2483 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2484 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2488 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2491 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2495 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2498 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2502 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2505 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2509 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2512 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2513 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2514 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2515 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2516 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2517 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2521 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2524 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2525 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2526 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2531 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2534 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2535 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2540 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2543 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2544 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2545 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2550 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2553 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2554 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2555 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2559 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2565 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2572 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2575 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2576 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2577 unknown. Closes: #282924
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2581 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2588 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Spanish man page updates.
2591 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2596 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2602 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2605 * dh_desktop: reindent
2606 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2607 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2611 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2617 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2619 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2623 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2625 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2629 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2632 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2633 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2637 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2643 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2649 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2656 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2659 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2663 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2666 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2667 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2668 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2669 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2670 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2671 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2673 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2674 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2675 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2676 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2677 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2678 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2679 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2680 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2681 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2682 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2683 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2684 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2685 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2686 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2687 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2688 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2692 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2699 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2702 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2706 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2709 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2713 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2716 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2720 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2723 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2727 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2733 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2739 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2745 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2748 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2749 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2750 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2754 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2757 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2761 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2764 but occasionally right and necessary.
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2768 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2771 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2772 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2773 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2774 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2775 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2779 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2782 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2784 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2785 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2786 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2787 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2788 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2789 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2790 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2791 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2792 postinst scripts for udebs.
2793 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2797 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2800 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2802 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2803 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2807 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2813 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2820 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2827 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2830 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2834 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2837 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2841 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2844 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2847 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2848 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2852 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2858 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2861 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2865 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2868 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2869 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2870 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2872 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2874 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2875 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2876 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2880 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2883 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2888 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2891 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2892 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2893 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2898 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2904 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2910 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2913 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2914 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2915 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2916 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2917 associated -dbg packages.
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2921 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2924 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2928 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2931 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2935 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2938 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2942 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2945 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2950 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2953 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2957 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2960 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2965 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2968 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2972 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2976 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2977 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2978 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2979 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2980 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2981 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2982 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2983 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2984 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2985 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2989 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2992 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2997 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
3000 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
3001 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
3005 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
3008 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
3009 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
3014 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
3017 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
3021 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
3024 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
3028 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
3031 out section number. Closes: #204731
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
3035 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
3042 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
3048 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
3054 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * Typo, Closes: #203907
3057 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
3058 removal. Closes: #204286
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
3062 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
3065 renaming. Closes: #203548
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
3069 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
3072 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
3073 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
3077 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
3083 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
3089 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
3095 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
3098 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
3099 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
3100 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
3104 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
3107 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
3108 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
3112 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3118 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3125 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3128 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3133 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3136 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3140 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3143 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3145 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3146 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3150 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3153 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3158 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3161 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3165 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3171 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3173 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3177 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3180 it break hard links (see #188663).
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3184 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3187 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3191 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3197 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3201 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3202 debconf-mergetemplates
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3206 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3209 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3213 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3216 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3220 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3223 * Update debhelper(1).
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3227 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3230 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3231 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3232 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3233 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3234 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3238 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3241 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3242 the shell. Closes: #178524
3243 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3247 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3250 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3254 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3257 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3261 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3264 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3265 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3266 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3267 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3272 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3275 files from installation.
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3279 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3282 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3283 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3287 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3290 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3294 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3297 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3301 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3307 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3313 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3317 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3318 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3320 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3324 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3327 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3328 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3329 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3330 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3334 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3337 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3341 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3344 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3345 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3349 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3353 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3358 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3364 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3368 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3369 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3370 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3375 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3378 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3379 practice. Closes: #163303
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3383 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3389 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3396 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3399 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3401 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3402 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3403 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3404 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3405 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3409 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3412 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3417 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3423 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3430 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3433 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3438 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3444 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3450 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3456 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3463 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3466 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3467 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3468 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3469 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3474 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3480 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3487 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3490 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3491 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3495 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3498 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3499 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3500 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3501 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3502 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3506 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3509 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3511 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3516 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3519 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3523 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3526 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3527 right thing. Closes: #150644
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3531 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * Stupid, evil typo.
3534 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3538 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3545 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3548 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3549 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3554 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3560 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3563 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3567 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3569 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3570 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3571 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3576 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3579 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3583 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3589 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3592 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3593 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3597 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3603 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * Removing perl warning message.
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3609 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3612 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3613 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3614 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3615 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3616 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3617 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3618 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3619 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3623 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3629 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3636 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3639 debconf-mergetemplate.
3640 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3641 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3645 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3648 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3649 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3650 dh_install, which ...
3651 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3652 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3653 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3654 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3655 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3656 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3657 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3658 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3659 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3660 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3661 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3662 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3663 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3664 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3665 other minor changes.
3666 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3667 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3668 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3669 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3670 course there's -X ..)
3671 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3672 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3673 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3675 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3676 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3677 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3678 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3679 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3684 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3690 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3693 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3697 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3703 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3709 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3715 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3721 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3724 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3725 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3726 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3727 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3729 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3730 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3734 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3740 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3743 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3747 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3749 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3750 upset. Closes: #131322
3752 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3754 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3757 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3758 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3759 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3760 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3761 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3762 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3763 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3764 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3765 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3766 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3767 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3768 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3769 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3770 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3771 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3773 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3777 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3780 - Better indenting of generated code.
3781 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3785 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3789 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3790 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3791 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3792 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3793 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3794 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3795 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3799 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3801 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3802 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3806 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3808 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3809 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3810 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3811 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3812 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3813 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3814 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3815 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3816 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3817 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3818 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3819 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3820 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3821 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3822 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3823 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3828 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3834 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3837 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3838 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3842 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3845 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3846 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3850 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3856 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3859 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3860 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3861 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3862 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3863 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3868 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3874 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3877 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3881 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3884 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3889 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3895 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3898 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3902 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3908 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3910 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3912 Also some indentation fixes.
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3916 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3918 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3919 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3920 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3921 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3922 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3923 Closes: #106514, #85520
3925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3927 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3929 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3933 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3939 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3941 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3945 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3947 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3951 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3953 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3957 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3960 change it in debhelper v4..
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3964 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3970 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3972 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3973 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3977 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3980 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3984 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3990 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3992 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3993 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3994 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3995 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3996 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3997 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3998 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3999 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
4000 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
4001 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
4002 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
4003 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
4004 prefixed with ".debhelper")
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
4008 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
4011 look just like shared libs, but are not.
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
4015 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
4022 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
4025 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
4026 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
4027 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
4028 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
4029 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
4030 program those options go to. So, for example,
4031 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
4032 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
4033 something complex. Closes: #89311
4034 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
4038 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
4041 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
4042 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
4043 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
4045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
4047 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4049 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
4050 through loop. Closes: #98598
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
4054 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * Missing semi-colon.
4057 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
4058 this (dh_* should be called, really).
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
4062 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
4065 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
4066 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
4067 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
4071 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
4074 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
4075 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
4077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
4079 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4081 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
4082 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
4086 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
4089 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
4090 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
4094 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
4097 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
4098 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
4099 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
4101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
4103 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4105 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
4106 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
4107 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
4108 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
4110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
4112 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4114 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4115 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4119 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4125 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4131 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4137 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4143 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4146 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4150 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4153 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4154 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4155 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4156 followed. Closes: #85483
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4160 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4162 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4163 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4164 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4168 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4171 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4172 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4173 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4174 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4175 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4176 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4177 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4178 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4179 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4180 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4181 Closes: #88464, #77743
4182 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4183 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4184 us to deal with that gracefully.
4185 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4187 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4188 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4189 a while, Closes: #51225
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4193 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4199 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4202 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4206 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4210 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4215 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4217 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4218 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4219 don't make packlist files.
4220 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4221 debhelper coding standards.
4222 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4223 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4227 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4229 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4230 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4234 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4237 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4238 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4239 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4240 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4241 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4242 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4243 but is mildly deprecated.
4244 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4245 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4246 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4247 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4248 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4249 switching to statoverrides..
4250 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4251 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4252 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4253 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4254 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4255 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4257 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4258 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4259 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4260 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4261 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4262 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4263 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4264 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4265 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4267 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4268 variable names, pod man pages).
4269 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4270 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4271 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4272 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4273 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4274 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4275 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4279 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4281 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4285 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4292 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4294 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4295 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4299 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4301 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4302 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4303 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4307 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4309 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4310 they were previously ignored.
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4314 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4316 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4317 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4321 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4323 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4324 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4325 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4329 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4331 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4335 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4337 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4338 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4342 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4344 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4345 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4346 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4347 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4348 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4349 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4350 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4351 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4352 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4353 it is an obsolete program.
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4357 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4359 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4363 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4367 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4369 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4371 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4373 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4375 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4377 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4379 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4383 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4389 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * typo: Closes, #78567
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4395 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4401 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4407 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4410 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4411 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4412 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4413 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4414 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4418 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4420 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4421 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4426 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4429 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4430 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4431 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4432 backwards-compatibility.
4434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4436 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4438 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4439 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4440 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4441 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4442 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4443 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4444 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4446 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4447 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4448 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4450 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4452 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4453 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4454 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4455 should now be raised to severity important..
4456 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4457 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4461 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4464 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4469 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4475 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4481 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4487 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4489 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4494 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4496 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4497 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4498 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4499 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4500 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4504 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4510 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4513 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4514 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4515 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4516 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4517 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4518 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4523 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4525 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4526 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4530 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4532 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4536 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4539 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4544 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4546 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4547 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4548 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4549 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4550 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4554 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4558 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4561 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4564 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4565 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4568 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4570 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4571 the TODO entry about it.
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4575 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4582 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4585 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4586 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4590 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4592 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4593 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4594 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4595 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4596 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4600 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4606 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4608 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4613 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4616 (this appears to be logal).
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4620 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4623 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4624 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4625 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4626 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4630 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4636 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4639 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4640 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4641 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4642 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4646 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4652 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4655 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4659 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4666 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4669 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4670 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4671 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4676 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4683 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4685 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4689 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4691 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4692 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4693 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4694 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4695 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4696 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4697 notice until v2 is complete.
4698 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
4699 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4700 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4701 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4702 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4703 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4705 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4706 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4707 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4708 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4712 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4714 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4718 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4720 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4725 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4727 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4728 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4732 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4734 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4739 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4742 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4743 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4744 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4745 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4750 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4753 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4754 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4755 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4760 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4762 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4763 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4764 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4768 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4771 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4775 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4777 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4778 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4782 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4789 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4792 depend on the build and install targets.
4794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4796 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4798 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4799 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4803 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4810 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4812 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4816 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4818 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4822 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4824 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4825 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4826 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4827 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4828 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4829 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4830 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4832 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4833 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4834 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4835 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4836 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4837 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4838 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4842 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4848 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4854 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4857 right place. Closes: #55065
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4861 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4868 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4871 * Copyright date updates.
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4875 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4878 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4883 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4885 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4889 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4896 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4902 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4904 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4908 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4910 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4914 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4917 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4918 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4919 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4920 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4921 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4922 bits until all files have been registered.
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4926 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4928 * dh_installmanpages:
4929 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4930 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4931 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4932 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4933 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4934 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4935 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4936 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4937 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4938 otherwise change the result at all.
4940 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4941 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4942 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4943 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4944 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4949 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4951 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4955 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4958 act on files that don't exist.
4959 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4960 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4961 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4963 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4964 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4965 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4966 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4970 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4976 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4982 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4985 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4989 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4991 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4992 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4994 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4995 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4996 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
5000 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
5003 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
5004 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
5005 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
5006 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
5007 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
5008 does not compress. Closes: #41733
5009 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
5011 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
5013 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
5015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
5017 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5019 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
5022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
5024 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5026 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
5030 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5032 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
5036 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
5039 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
5041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
5043 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5045 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
5047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
5049 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5051 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
5053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
5055 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5057 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
5058 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
5059 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
5060 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
5061 I made some changes, though:
5062 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
5063 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
5064 that is a clear violation of policy.
5065 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
5066 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
5067 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
5068 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
5069 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
5070 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
5071 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
5072 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
5073 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
5075 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
5079 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
5085 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
5088 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
5092 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5094 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
5095 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
5096 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
5101 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
5107 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
5112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
5114 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5116 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5117 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5118 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5119 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5120 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5121 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5122 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5123 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5127 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5133 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5135 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5137 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5138 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5142 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5144 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5148 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5150 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5151 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5155 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5157 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5158 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5159 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5163 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5165 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5170 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5172 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5174 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5178 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5180 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5181 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5182 for the dependancies to be generated.
5184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5186 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5188 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5189 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5193 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5195 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5196 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5197 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5198 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5203 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5206 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5207 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5211 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5213 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5217 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5223 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5226 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5230 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5232 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5236 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5239 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5240 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5241 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5242 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5243 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5244 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5245 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5246 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5247 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5248 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5249 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5250 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5254 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5256 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5257 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5258 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5260 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5261 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5262 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5263 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5264 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5265 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5267 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5268 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5272 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5274 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5275 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5279 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5281 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5286 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5288 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5289 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5294 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5296 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5297 for building debhelper.
5298 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5302 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5304 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5309 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5311 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5312 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5316 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5318 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5319 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5320 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5321 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5322 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5323 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5324 it's always available.
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5328 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5331 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5332 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5333 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5337 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5339 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5340 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5341 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5345 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5351 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5354 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5358 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5364 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5367 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5368 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5369 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5373 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5375 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5376 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5381 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5383 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5384 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5385 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5387 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5388 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5392 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5394 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5398 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5400 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5404 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5407 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5411 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5413 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5414 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5415 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5417 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5421 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5424 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5425 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5426 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5430 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5432 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5433 things if CDPATH is set.
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5437 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5443 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5446 seems to make sense for the transition.
5448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5450 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5452 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5453 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5458 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5460 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5461 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5462 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5466 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5468 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5469 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5473 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5476 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5477 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5478 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5479 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5483 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5489 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5491 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5492 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5493 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5494 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5495 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5496 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5497 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5498 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5499 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5500 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5501 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
5504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5506 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5508 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5509 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5510 * README: mention doc/v2
5511 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5512 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5516 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5518 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5519 be using this script RSN.
5521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5523 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5525 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5526 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5527 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5528 more than 1 init script.
5530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5532 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5534 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5535 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5539 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * Changed perl version detection.
5542 * Changed call to find.
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5546 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5549 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5551 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5556 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5558 * Really include dh_installpam.
5560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5562 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5564 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5565 * Wrote man page for same.
5567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5569 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5571 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5572 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5573 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5578 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5585 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5587 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5588 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5589 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5590 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5591 x bit was being set!
5593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5595 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5597 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5598 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5599 well. (Closes: 38900)
5601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5603 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5605 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5606 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5607 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5611 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5613 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5617 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5619 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5624 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5626 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5630 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5632 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5633 help from Julian Gilbey.
5634 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5635 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5636 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5637 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5638 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5639 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5640 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5645 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5647 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5651 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5658 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5664 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5670 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5673 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5677 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5679 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5680 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5684 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5686 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5687 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5691 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5693 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5697 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5699 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5700 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5704 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5706 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5710 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5712 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5716 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5718 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5719 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5720 may be deleted. (#35845)
5722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5724 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5726 * Various man page enhancements.
5727 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5732 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5734 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5735 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5736 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5740 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5743 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5744 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5745 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5747 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5748 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5753 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5755 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5759 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5761 * Another very minor typo fix.
5763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5765 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5767 * Very minor typo fix.
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5771 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5774 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5775 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5779 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5781 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5785 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5787 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5788 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5789 variables properly (#34850).
5791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5793 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5795 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5799 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5801 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5802 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5803 (automatically generated by build process).
5805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5807 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5809 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5813 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5815 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5816 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5817 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5819 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5823 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5825 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5826 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5830 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5832 * README: minor typo fix.
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5836 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5838 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5839 leave it at that. :-)
5841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5843 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5845 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5849 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5851 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5855 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5857 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5858 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5859 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5860 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5864 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5866 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5867 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5871 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5873 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5874 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5878 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5880 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5881 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5882 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5883 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5884 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5888 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5890 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5891 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5892 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5893 Craig Small for spotting this.
5895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5897 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5899 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5900 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5901 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5905 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5907 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5911 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5914 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5918 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5920 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5921 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5922 working on the last version of debhelper.
5924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5926 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5928 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5929 being made. (#23255)
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5933 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5935 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5939 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5941 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5942 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5946 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5949 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5950 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5951 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5952 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5956 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5958 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5959 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5960 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5961 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5962 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5964 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5965 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5967 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5972 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5974 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5978 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5980 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5984 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5986 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5987 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5988 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5989 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5990 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5991 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5992 suidregister actually supports it.
5993 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5994 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5998 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
6000 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
6003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
6005 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
6007 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
6008 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
6009 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
6010 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
6011 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
6012 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
6013 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
6014 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
6016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
6018 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
6020 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
6021 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
6023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
6025 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
6027 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
6028 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
6029 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
6030 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
6031 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
6033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
6035 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
6037 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
6038 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
6040 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
6041 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
6042 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
6043 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
6044 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
6045 effect, either. (#30118)
6047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
6049 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
6051 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
6053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
6055 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
6057 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
6058 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
6059 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
6061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
6063 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
6065 * Spelling and typo fixes.
6067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
6069 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
6071 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
6072 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
6073 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
6074 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
6075 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
6077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
6079 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
6081 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
6082 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
6083 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
6085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
6087 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
6089 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
6091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
6093 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
6095 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
6096 packages, painlessly.
6098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
6100 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
6102 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
6104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
6106 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
6108 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
6110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
6112 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
6114 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6118 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6120 * The perl conversion is complete.
6122 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6124 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6125 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6126 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6131 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6133 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6134 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6135 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6136 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6140 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6142 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6143 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6145 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6147 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6148 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6152 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6154 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6155 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6156 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6160 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6162 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6166 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6168 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6169 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6170 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6171 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6172 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6173 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6177 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6179 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6180 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6181 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6182 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6183 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6187 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6189 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6190 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6194 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6196 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6197 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6198 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6199 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6200 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6201 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6202 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6203 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6204 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6208 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6210 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6214 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6216 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6217 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6218 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6219 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6224 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6226 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6227 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6231 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6233 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6234 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6238 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6240 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6241 sections of shared libraries.
6242 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6243 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6244 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6245 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6246 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6247 things you don't want them to.
6248 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6249 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6253 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6255 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6256 shared libraries. (#26414)
6258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6260 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6262 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6263 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6264 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6265 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6269 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6271 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6273 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6275 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6276 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6277 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6278 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6279 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6283 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6285 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6286 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6290 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6292 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6293 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6294 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6299 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6301 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6302 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6306 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6308 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6309 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6310 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6311 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6312 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6313 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6315 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6316 remove debian/files properly.
6317 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6318 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6319 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6320 * Removed bogus menu file.
6322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6324 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6326 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6327 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6331 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6333 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6334 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6335 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6336 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6337 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6338 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6339 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6343 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6345 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6346 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6347 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6348 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6349 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6353 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6355 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6360 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6362 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6363 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6364 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6366 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6367 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6368 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6369 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6370 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6371 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6375 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6377 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6378 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6379 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6380 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6381 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6382 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6383 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6384 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6385 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6386 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6387 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6388 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6389 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6390 passed any switches.
6391 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6395 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6397 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6398 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6399 at all for a long while.
6400 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6401 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6402 large chunks in the process.
6403 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6404 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6405 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6410 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6412 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6413 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6415 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6420 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6422 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6423 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6424 that don't always have the same files in them.
6425 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6426 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6427 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6431 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6433 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6435 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6436 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6437 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6438 updating 27 man pages.
6439 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6440 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6441 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6442 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6443 programs act on. (#25247)
6445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6447 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6451 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6452 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6453 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6454 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6455 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6456 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6461 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6463 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6468 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6470 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6475 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6477 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6478 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6482 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6484 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6488 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6490 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6491 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6492 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6493 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6494 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6495 package by accident.
6496 * Is version 1.0 next?
6498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6500 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6502 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6503 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6504 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6508 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6510 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6511 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6512 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6513 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6514 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6515 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6517 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6522 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6524 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6525 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6526 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6530 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6532 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6533 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6537 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6539 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6540 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6541 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6546 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6548 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6552 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6554 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6555 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6556 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6561 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6563 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6567 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6569 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6570 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6571 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6572 past week. Thanks, guys!
6574 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6575 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6576 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6577 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6578 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6579 would do in the same situation.
6580 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6581 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6583 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6585 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6586 permissions changed.
6587 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6588 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6589 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6590 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6591 files are treated identically.
6592 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6593 * Minor man page fixes.
6594 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6595 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6596 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6600 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6602 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6603 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6604 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6605 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6606 use -X multiple times, too.
6607 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6608 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6612 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6614 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6615 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6616 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6620 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6622 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6623 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6627 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6629 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6630 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6631 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6632 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6633 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6634 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6635 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6636 shape if you're starting a new package.
6638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6640 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6642 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6643 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6647 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6649 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6650 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6651 because of missing symlinks.
6653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6655 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6657 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6661 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6663 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6664 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6665 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6666 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6667 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6668 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6670 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6671 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6675 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6677 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6678 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6679 to be changed after the fact :-)
6680 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6684 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6686 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6687 no version string after the -V.
6689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6691 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6693 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6694 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6699 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6701 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6702 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6706 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6708 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6709 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6710 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6711 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6712 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6713 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6714 I always welcome corrections!
6716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6718 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6720 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6724 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6726 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6727 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6728 * Documented this new switch.
6730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6732 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6734 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6735 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6736 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6737 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6738 no packages use the old behavior.
6740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6742 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6744 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6745 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6746 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6750 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6752 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6753 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6757 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6759 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6763 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6765 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6766 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6770 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6772 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6773 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6774 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6775 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6779 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6781 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6785 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6787 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6788 into the source package by accident.
6790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6792 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6794 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6795 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6796 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6797 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6798 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6799 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6800 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6805 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6807 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6809 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6810 inspired to implement some of it.
6811 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6815 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6817 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6818 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6822 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6824 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6825 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6826 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6830 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6832 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6833 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6834 have done.) (#17598)
6836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6838 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6840 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6844 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6846 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6850 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6852 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6853 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6857 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6859 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6860 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6861 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6865 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6867 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6868 argument processor in perl.
6869 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6870 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6871 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6872 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6876 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6878 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6879 type directories. (#16933)
6880 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6881 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6882 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6883 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6884 are supported. (#16935)
6885 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6890 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6892 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6893 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6897 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6899 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6901 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6902 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6903 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6904 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6905 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6906 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6910 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6912 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6913 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6914 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6916 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6917 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6918 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6919 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6920 a given package, or -i or -a.
6921 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6922 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6923 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6924 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6925 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6926 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6927 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6928 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6929 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6931 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6932 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6933 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6937 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6939 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6940 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6941 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6946 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6948 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6949 does not have a section.
6951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6953 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6955 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6956 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6957 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6958 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6962 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6964 * Fixed typo #16215.
6966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6968 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6970 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6971 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6972 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6973 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6974 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6975 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6980 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6982 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6983 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6984 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6985 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6990 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6992 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6996 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6998 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
7000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
7002 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
7004 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
7005 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
7006 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
7007 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
7008 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
7009 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
7010 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
7012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
7014 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
7016 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
7018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
7020 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
7022 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
7023 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
7025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
7027 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
7029 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
7030 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
7031 the dh_* programs (#15497).
7032 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
7034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
7036 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
7038 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
7039 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
7041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
7043 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
7045 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
7047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
7049 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
7051 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
7052 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
7054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
7056 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
7058 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
7059 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
7061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
7063 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
7065 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
7067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
7069 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
7071 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
7072 postinst, postrm, etc.
7074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
7076 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
7078 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
7080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
7082 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
7084 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
7085 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
7086 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
7087 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
7088 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
7089 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
7091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
7093 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
7095 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
7096 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
7097 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
7099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
7101 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
7103 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
7104 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
7106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
7108 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
7110 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
7111 installing package files into.
7112 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7117 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7119 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7121 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7125 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7127 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7131 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7133 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7134 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7138 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7140 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7141 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7142 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7143 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7144 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7148 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7150 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7151 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7152 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7153 multiple binary packages.
7154 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7155 should rebuild them with this version.
7156 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7160 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7162 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7163 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7167 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7169 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7170 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7174 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7176 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7177 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7178 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7179 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7180 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7181 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7182 debian/README.debian.
7183 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7184 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7185 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7186 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7187 in a few situations.)
7189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7191 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7193 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7197 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7199 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7203 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7205 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7206 * Fixed several man pages.
7208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7210 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7212 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7213 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7214 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7218 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7220 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7221 is ready for general use.
7222 * Added man pages for all commands.
7223 * Multiple binary package support.
7224 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7225 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7226 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7228 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7229 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7230 auto-installed as parameters.
7231 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7233 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7236 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7237 the package build directory it is to act on.
7238 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7239 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7240 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7244 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7246 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7247 ready to replace debstd.
7249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400