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
19 * Improve -X documentation. Closes: #686696
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:51:07 -0600
23 debhelper (9.20120830) unstable; urgency=low
25 * dh_installcatalogs: Adjust catalog conffile conversion to avoid
26 dpkg conffile prompt when upgrading from a removed package.
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:04:10 -0400
31 debhelper (9.20120608) unstable; urgency=low
33 * dh: When there's an -indep override target without -arch, or vice versa,
34 avoid acting on packages covered by the override target when running
35 the command for packages not covered by it. Closes: #676462
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:15:48 -0400
39 debhelper (9.20120528) unstable; urgency=low
41 * dh_installcatalogs: Turn /etc/sgml/$package.cat into conffiles
42 and introduce dependency on trigger-based sgml-base. Closes: #477751
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 May 2012 13:40:26 -0400
47 debhelper (9.20120523) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #673629 Thanks, Omar Campagne
50 * Set Multi-Arch: foreign. Closes: #674193
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 May 2012 14:55:48 -0400
54 debhelper (9.20120518) unstable; urgency=low
56 * Fix versioned dependency on dpkg for xz options. Closes: #672895
57 * dh_link: Doc improvement. Closes: #672988
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 May 2012 11:05:03 -0400
61 debhelper (9.20120513) unstable; urgency=low
63 * Improve -v logging. Closes: #672448
64 * dh_builddeb: Build udebs with xz compression, level 1, extreme strategy.
65 This has been chosen to not need any more memory or cpu when uncompressing,
66 while yeilding the best compressions for udebs. Thanks, Philipp Kern.
67 * Depend on a new enough dpkg for above features. Backporters will need
68 to revert these changes.
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 May 2012 13:09:42 -0400
72 debhelper (9.20120509) unstable; urgency=low
74 * dh_installman: Recognize sections from mdoc .Dt entries. Closes: #670210
76 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #671598
77 * dh_install: Reorder documentation for clarity. Closes: #672109
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 May 2012 12:59:15 -0400
81 debhelper (9.20120419) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Fix compat level checking for cmake. Closes: #669181
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:35 -0400
87 debhelper (9.20120418) unstable; urgency=low
89 * cmake: Only pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS in v9.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:39 -0400
93 debhelper (9.20120417) unstable; urgency=low
95 * cmake: Pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS. Closes: #668813
96 Thanks, Simon Ruderich for the patch and for verifying no affected
97 package is broken by this change.
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:29 -0400
101 debhelper (9.20120410) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891
105 * Conflict with too old automake for AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. Closes: #666901
106 * dh_md5sums: Don't skip DEBIAN directories other than the control files
110 * dh_installinit: rework upstart handling to comply with new policy
111 proposal; packages will ship both an init script and an upstart job,
112 instead of just an upstart job and a symlink to a compat wrapper.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:51:15 -0400
117 debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
120 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
121 Added to interface documentation.
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400
126 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
128 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
132 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
135 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
136 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
137 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
139 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
140 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
141 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
142 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
143 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
148 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
150 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
151 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
152 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
153 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
154 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
155 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
156 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
160 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
162 * Typo. Closes: #653006
163 * Typo. Closes: #653339
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
167 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
169 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
170 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
171 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
172 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
173 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
174 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
178 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
180 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
181 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
182 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
183 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
184 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
185 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
186 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
187 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
191 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
193 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
197 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
199 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
200 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
201 may need to disable this.
202 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
203 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
204 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
205 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
209 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
211 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
212 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
213 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
217 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
219 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
220 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
221 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
223 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
224 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
225 to dh. Closes: #643069
226 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
227 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
231 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
233 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
234 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
235 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
236 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
237 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
239 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
240 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
241 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
243 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
244 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
245 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
246 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
247 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
248 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
249 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
250 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
251 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
252 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
253 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
254 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
255 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
256 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
257 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
261 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
268 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
270 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
271 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
273 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
279 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
281 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
282 Use override targets instead.
283 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
284 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
285 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
286 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
287 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
288 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
289 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
290 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
291 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
292 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
297 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
299 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
300 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
304 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
306 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
310 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
313 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
314 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
315 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
316 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
317 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
318 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
322 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
325 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
326 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
327 the targets. Closes: #629139
328 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
329 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
330 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
331 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
332 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
333 are already set to other values will not be changed.
335 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
336 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
337 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
338 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
339 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
344 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
346 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
350 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
353 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
354 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
358 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
360 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
361 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
362 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
363 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
364 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
365 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
366 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
367 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
372 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
375 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
376 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
377 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
379 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
380 changes may be added to that mode.
381 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
382 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
383 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
384 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
385 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
386 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
387 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
388 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
389 * Removed old example rules files.
390 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
394 * update french translation.
395 * Fix french misspelling.
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
399 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
401 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
402 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
406 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
409 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
410 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
411 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
412 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
413 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
414 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
415 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
419 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
422 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
423 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
424 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
425 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
426 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
427 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
429 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
430 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
431 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
432 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
433 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
434 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
435 (Thanks, David Prévot)
436 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
437 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
438 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
439 target fails. Closes: #601037
440 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
442 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
443 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
444 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
445 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
446 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
448 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
449 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
451 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
452 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
453 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
455 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
457 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
460 * update french translation.
461 * Fix french misspelling.
462 * French translation update after massive man page typography
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
466 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
469 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
472 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
476 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
478 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
482 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
484 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
485 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
486 introduced by the fix to #527990.
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
490 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
492 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
493 changes are planned for that mode.
494 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
495 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
496 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
497 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
498 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
499 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
500 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
501 (genesis) still uses them.
502 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
503 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
504 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
505 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
506 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
507 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
508 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
509 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
510 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
511 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
512 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
513 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
514 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
515 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
516 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
517 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
518 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
519 commands. (See #570039)
520 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
522 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
527 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
531 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
532 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
533 in control file or debhelper config files.
534 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
538 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
540 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
541 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
542 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
546 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
549 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
553 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
556 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
557 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
561 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
563 * Updated French translation.
564 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
565 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
566 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
567 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
569 * Typo. Closes: #571968
570 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
571 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
572 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
573 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
574 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
575 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
576 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
577 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
578 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
580 * dh: Improve documentation.
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
584 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
586 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
587 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
588 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
592 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
594 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
595 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
599 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
602 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
606 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
608 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
609 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
610 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
611 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
612 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
613 options that they do not support.
614 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
615 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
616 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
617 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
618 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
619 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
624 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
628 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
629 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
630 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
631 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
632 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
633 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
634 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
635 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
636 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
640 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
643 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
644 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
645 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
646 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
650 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Typo. Closes: #558654
653 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
654 installed. Closes: #558782
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
658 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
661 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
662 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
663 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
664 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
665 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
669 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
671 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
672 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
673 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
674 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
678 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
680 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
681 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
682 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
686 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
688 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
692 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
694 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
695 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
696 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
697 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
698 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
699 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
700 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
701 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
702 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
703 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
704 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
705 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
706 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
707 time soon.) Closes: #554509
708 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
710 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
711 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
712 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
713 document id. Closes: #555677
714 * Typo. Closes: #555659
715 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
716 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
717 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
718 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
720 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
721 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
722 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
727 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
730 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
731 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
732 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
733 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
734 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
735 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
736 translation (#494300 part 2)
739 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
741 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
742 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
743 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
744 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
745 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
749 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
752 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
753 (It was only run once due to logging.)
754 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
755 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
756 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
757 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
758 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
759 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
760 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
761 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
762 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
763 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
767 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
770 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
771 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
774 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
775 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
779 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
781 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
782 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
783 flag with arch all/any packages.
784 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
785 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
786 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
787 situation. Closes: #540794
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
791 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
795 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
796 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
797 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
798 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
799 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
802 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
803 the default. Closes: #538201
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
808 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
810 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
812 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
813 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
814 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
815 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
816 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
818 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
819 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
820 * Above Closes: #491117
821 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
826 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
829 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
832 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
833 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
834 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
838 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
841 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
842 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
843 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
844 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
845 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
850 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
852 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
853 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
854 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
858 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
860 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
864 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
866 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
867 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
869 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
870 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
871 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
875 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
877 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
878 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
882 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
884 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
888 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
890 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
891 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
892 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
897 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
899 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
903 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
906 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
907 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
908 created by using `python' first during build and install.
910 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
915 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
917 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
921 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
923 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
924 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
928 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
930 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
934 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
936 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
940 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
942 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
943 contributed by Modestas Vainius
944 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
945 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
946 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
947 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
948 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
949 that support it. Closes: #480577
950 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
951 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
952 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
954 - Adds support for cmake.
955 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
956 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
958 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
960 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
961 that use them. The options are:
962 --sourcedir, --destdir
963 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
964 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
965 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
966 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
967 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
971 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
977 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
980 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
981 default. Closes: #537140
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
985 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
987 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
988 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
989 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
993 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
996 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
1000 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
1003 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
1007 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
1010 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
1012 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
1013 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
1014 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
1018 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
1021 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
1022 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
1023 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
1027 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
1030 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
1031 warning or deprecation message.
1032 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
1033 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
1034 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
1035 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
1036 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
1037 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
1038 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
1039 Closes: #534639, #357434
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
1043 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
1049 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
1052 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
1053 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
1054 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
1055 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
1057 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
1058 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
1059 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
1063 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
1069 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
1076 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
1079 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
1083 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
1087 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
1088 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
1090 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
1091 file support. Closes: #494914
1092 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
1096 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
1099 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
1100 parameters. Closes: #527256
1101 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
1102 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
1103 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
1107 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
1110 (Patch from #459548)
1111 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
1112 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
1113 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1117 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1120 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1121 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1122 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1126 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1129 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1130 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1132 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1133 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1134 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1138 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1142 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1146 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1149 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1150 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1151 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1152 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1157 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1163 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1166 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1167 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1168 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1169 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1170 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1172 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1173 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1174 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1175 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1176 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1177 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1181 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1184 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1185 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1186 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1187 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1188 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1190 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1194 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1196 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1200 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1202 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1203 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1204 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1205 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1206 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1207 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1208 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1209 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1210 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1211 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1212 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1216 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1218 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1219 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1221 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1222 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1223 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1224 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1226 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1227 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1231 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1233 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1234 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1235 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1236 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1237 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1238 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1239 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1241 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1242 that uses them. Affected options are:
1243 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1244 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1245 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1246 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1247 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1248 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1249 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1250 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1251 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1252 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1253 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1254 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1258 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1265 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1271 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1274 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1276 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1277 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1278 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1279 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1280 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1281 than the old method.
1282 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1284 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1285 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1286 rules (see bug #509756).
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1290 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1296 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1297 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1298 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1299 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1303 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1306 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1307 empty files. Closes: #490937
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1311 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1317 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1324 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1327 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1328 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1329 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1330 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1335 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1337 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1338 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1339 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1340 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1344 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1347 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1348 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1349 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1350 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1351 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1355 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1362 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1365 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1366 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1367 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1368 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1369 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1370 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1371 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1372 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1373 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1377 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1380 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1381 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1382 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1383 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1385 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1386 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1387 breaking backwards compatibility.
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1391 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1394 message in perl 5.10.
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1398 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1404 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1407 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1411 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1414 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1418 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1421 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1422 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1423 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1424 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1425 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1426 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1427 logging by dh_listpackages.
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1431 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1434 run and there are no packages of that type.
1435 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1436 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1437 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1438 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1440 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1441 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1445 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1448 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1449 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1453 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1456 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1457 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1459 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1460 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1461 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1462 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1463 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1464 planned but not yet implemented.)
1465 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1466 if the Makefile has such a target.
1467 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1468 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1469 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1470 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1471 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1472 but not yet implemented.)
1473 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1474 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1475 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1476 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1477 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1479 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1481 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1482 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1484 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1485 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1486 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1491 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1494 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1495 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1499 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1501 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1502 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1503 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1507 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1513 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1519 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1522 just those installed by the program.
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1526 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1529 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1530 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1534 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1537 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1538 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1539 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1540 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1544 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1547 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1548 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1552 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1555 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1556 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1560 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1563 with policy. Closes: #461392
1564 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1565 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1566 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1567 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1568 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1572 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1575 Closes: #460340, #460351
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1579 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1582 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1583 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1584 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1585 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1589 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1592 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1593 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1594 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1595 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1596 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1597 package build directory won't work.
1598 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1599 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1600 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1601 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1602 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1603 mode. Closes: #459426
1604 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1609 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1612 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1616 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1620 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1621 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1622 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1623 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1624 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1625 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1629 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1632 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1633 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1634 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1635 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1639 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1642 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1643 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1644 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1645 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1646 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1650 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1653 debian/package.triggers files.
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1657 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1660 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1664 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1667 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1668 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1669 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1670 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1675 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1678 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1682 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1685 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1686 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1688 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1693 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1697 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1698 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1699 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1703 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1710 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1717 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1720 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1722 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1723 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1724 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1726 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1727 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1728 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1732 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1735 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1736 * Update urls to web page.
1737 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1738 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1739 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1740 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1744 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1747 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1748 - typo in alternatives call
1749 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1751 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1752 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1756 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1759 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1764 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1770 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1776 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1779 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1781 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1782 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1783 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1784 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1785 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1786 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1787 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1788 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1789 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1790 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1791 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1795 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1798 package install. Closes: #415717
1799 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1800 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1801 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1802 script and then remove the python files.
1803 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1804 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1805 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1806 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1807 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1808 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1809 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1810 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1811 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1812 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1813 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1814 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1815 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1819 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * Correct typo in french translation
1825 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1826 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1828 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1830 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1831 Closes: #406921, #381940
1832 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1834 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1835 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1836 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1837 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1838 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1839 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1840 specified). Closes: #381851
1841 * Misc minor changes.
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1845 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1852 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1853 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1857 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1863 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1864 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1867 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1868 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1870 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1871 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1872 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1873 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1877 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1880 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1883 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1887 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1893 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1899 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1900 a difficult situation.
1901 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1902 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1903 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1904 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1905 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1906 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1907 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1908 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1909 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1910 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1914 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Non-maintainer upload.
1917 * Update of dh_python
1918 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1919 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1921 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1922 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1923 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1924 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1925 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1927 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1929 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * Non-maintainer upload.
1932 * Update of dh_python
1933 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1934 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1935 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1936 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1937 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1938 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1939 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1940 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1941 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1942 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1944 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1945 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1946 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1947 the not too-distant future).
1948 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1949 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1950 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1951 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1952 thus made the build fail.
1954 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1956 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Non-maintainer upload.
1959 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1961 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1963 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1966 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1967 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1968 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1969 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1970 package. Closes: #301424
1971 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1972 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1973 fonts). Closes: #372686
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1977 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1983 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1984 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1985 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1986 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1987 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1988 above, but already depends on that.
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1992 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1995 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1996 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1997 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1998 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1999 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
2003 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
2009 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
2015 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
2016 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
2020 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
2023 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
2027 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
2031 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
2032 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
2033 new version (0.24.1).
2034 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
2035 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
2038 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
2039 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
2040 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
2041 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
2042 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
2043 new directory on their own.
2044 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
2045 * Fix broken directory removal code.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
2049 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
2052 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
2053 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
2054 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
2055 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
2059 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
2062 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
2063 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
2064 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
2065 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
2066 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
2070 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
2076 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Typo. Closes: #358904
2080 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
2081 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
2085 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2086 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
2090 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
2092 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
2093 || exit 0 instead of the intended
2095 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
2096 ignored. Closes: #337664
2098 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
2103 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
2109 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
2114 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
2115 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2116 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2117 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2118 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2119 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2120 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2124 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2127 version. Closes: #350607
2128 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2129 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2130 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2131 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2135 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2138 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2139 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2140 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2144 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2151 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2157 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2160 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2164 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2167 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2168 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2169 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2170 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2171 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2172 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2176 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2179 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2180 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2185 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2188 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2192 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2195 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2199 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2202 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2203 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2204 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2205 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2206 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2207 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2211 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2215 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2216 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2217 link. Closes: #346405
2218 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2220 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2221 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2222 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2223 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2224 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2225 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2226 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2230 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2237 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2243 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2246 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2250 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2253 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2258 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2262 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2263 installed. Closes: #342033
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2267 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2270 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2271 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2272 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2277 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2283 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2289 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2293 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2294 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2295 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2299 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2302 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2307 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2314 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2320 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2323 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2324 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2325 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2326 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2327 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2328 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2329 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2331 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2335 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2338 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2339 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2343 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2346 in standard man dirs.
2347 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2351 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2357 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2360 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2365 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2372 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2379 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2382 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2383 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2387 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2390 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2391 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2392 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2394 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2396 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2402 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2408 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2411 mode. Closes: #324161
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2415 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2418 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2419 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2420 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2421 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2426 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2429 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2430 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2431 is necesary for sanity.
2432 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2433 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2438 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2440 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2441 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2445 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2448 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2452 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2458 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2461 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2462 released, so use at your own risk.
2463 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2464 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2466 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2467 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2468 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2469 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2470 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2471 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2472 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2473 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2474 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2475 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2476 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2477 including twice per config file line now..
2478 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2479 and simplfy the rules file.
2480 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2481 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2482 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2484 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2485 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2489 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2492 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2496 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2499 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2503 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2506 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2510 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2513 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2514 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2515 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2516 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2517 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2518 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2522 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2525 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2526 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2527 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2532 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2535 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2536 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2541 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2544 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2545 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2546 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2551 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2554 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2555 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2556 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2560 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2566 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2573 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2576 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2577 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2578 unknown. Closes: #282924
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2582 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2589 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * Spanish man page updates.
2592 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2597 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2603 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2606 * dh_desktop: reindent
2607 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2608 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2612 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2618 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2620 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2624 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2626 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2630 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2633 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2634 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2638 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2644 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2650 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2657 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2660 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2664 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2667 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2668 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2669 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2670 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2671 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2672 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2674 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2675 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2676 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2677 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2678 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2679 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2680 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2681 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2682 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2683 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2684 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2685 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2686 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2687 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2688 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2689 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2693 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2700 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2703 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2707 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2710 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2714 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2717 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2721 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2724 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2728 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2734 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2740 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2746 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2749 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2750 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2751 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2755 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2758 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2762 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2765 but occasionally right and necessary.
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2769 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2772 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2773 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2774 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2775 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2776 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2780 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2783 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2785 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2786 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2787 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2788 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2789 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2790 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2791 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2792 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2793 postinst scripts for udebs.
2794 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2798 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2801 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2803 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2804 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2808 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2814 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2821 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2828 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2831 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2835 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2838 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2842 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2845 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2848 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2849 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2853 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2859 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2862 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2866 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2869 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2870 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2871 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2873 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2875 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2876 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2877 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2881 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2884 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2889 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2892 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2893 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2894 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2899 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2905 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2911 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2914 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2915 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2916 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2917 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2918 associated -dbg packages.
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2922 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2925 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2929 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2932 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2936 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2939 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2943 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2946 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2951 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2954 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2958 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2961 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2966 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2969 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2973 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2977 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2978 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2979 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2980 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2981 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2982 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2983 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2984 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2985 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2986 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2990 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2993 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2998 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
3001 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
3002 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
3006 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
3009 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
3010 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
3015 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
3018 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
3022 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
3025 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
3029 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
3032 out section number. Closes: #204731
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
3036 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
3043 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
3049 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
3055 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * Typo, Closes: #203907
3058 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
3059 removal. Closes: #204286
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
3063 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
3066 renaming. Closes: #203548
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
3070 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
3073 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
3074 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
3078 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
3084 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
3090 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
3096 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
3099 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
3100 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
3101 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
3105 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
3108 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
3109 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
3113 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3119 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3126 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3129 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3134 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3137 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3141 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3144 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3146 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3147 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3151 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3154 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3159 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3162 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3166 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3172 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3174 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3178 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3181 it break hard links (see #188663).
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3185 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3188 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3192 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3198 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3202 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3203 debconf-mergetemplates
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3207 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3210 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3214 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3217 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3221 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3224 * Update debhelper(1).
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3228 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3231 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3232 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3233 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3234 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3235 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3239 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3242 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3243 the shell. Closes: #178524
3244 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3248 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3251 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3255 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3258 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3262 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3265 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3266 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3267 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3268 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3273 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3276 files from installation.
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3280 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3283 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3284 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3288 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3291 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3295 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3298 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3302 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3308 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3314 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3318 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3319 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3321 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3325 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3328 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3329 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3330 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3331 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3335 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3338 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3342 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3345 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3346 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3350 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3354 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3359 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3365 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3369 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3370 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3371 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3376 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3379 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3380 practice. Closes: #163303
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3384 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3390 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3397 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3400 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3402 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3403 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3404 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3405 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3406 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3410 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3413 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3418 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3424 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3431 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3434 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3439 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3445 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3451 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3453 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3457 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3464 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3467 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3468 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3469 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3470 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3475 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3481 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3488 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3491 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3492 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3496 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3499 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3500 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3501 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3502 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3503 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3507 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3510 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3512 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3517 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3520 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3524 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3527 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3528 right thing. Closes: #150644
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3532 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * Stupid, evil typo.
3535 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3539 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3546 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3549 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3550 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3555 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3561 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3564 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3568 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3571 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3572 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3577 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3580 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3584 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3590 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3593 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3594 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3598 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3604 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * Removing perl warning message.
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3610 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3613 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3614 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3615 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3616 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3617 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3618 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3619 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3620 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3624 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3630 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3637 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3640 debconf-mergetemplate.
3641 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3642 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3646 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3649 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3650 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3651 dh_install, which ...
3652 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3653 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3654 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3655 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3656 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3657 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3658 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3659 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3660 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3661 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3662 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3663 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3664 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3665 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3666 other minor changes.
3667 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3668 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3669 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3670 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3671 course there's -X ..)
3672 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3673 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3674 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3676 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3677 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3678 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3679 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3680 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3685 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3687 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3691 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3694 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3698 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3704 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3710 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3716 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3722 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3724 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3725 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3726 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3727 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3728 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3730 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3731 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3735 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3741 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3744 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3748 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3751 upset. Closes: #131322
3753 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3755 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3757 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3758 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3759 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3760 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3761 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3762 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3763 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3764 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3765 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3766 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3767 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3768 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3769 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3770 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3771 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3772 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3774 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3778 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3781 - Better indenting of generated code.
3782 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3786 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3790 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3791 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3792 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3793 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3794 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3795 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3796 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3800 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3803 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3807 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3810 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3811 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3812 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3813 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3814 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3815 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3816 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3817 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3818 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3819 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3820 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3821 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3822 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3823 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3824 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3829 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3835 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3837 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3838 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3839 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3843 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3846 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3847 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3851 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3857 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3860 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3861 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3862 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3863 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3864 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3869 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3871 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3875 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3878 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3882 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3885 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3890 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3892 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3896 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3899 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3903 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3909 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3913 Also some indentation fixes.
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3917 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3920 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3921 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3922 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3923 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3924 Closes: #106514, #85520
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3928 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3934 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3936 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3940 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3942 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3946 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3952 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3954 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3958 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3960 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3961 change it in debhelper v4..
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3965 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3971 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3974 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3978 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3981 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3985 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3991 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3994 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3995 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3996 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3997 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3998 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3999 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
4000 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
4001 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
4002 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
4003 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
4004 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
4005 prefixed with ".debhelper")
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
4009 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
4012 look just like shared libs, but are not.
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
4016 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
4023 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
4026 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
4027 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
4028 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
4029 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
4030 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
4031 program those options go to. So, for example,
4032 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
4033 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
4034 something complex. Closes: #89311
4035 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
4039 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4041 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
4042 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
4043 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
4044 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
4048 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
4051 through loop. Closes: #98598
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
4055 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * Missing semi-colon.
4058 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
4059 this (dh_* should be called, really).
4061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
4063 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4065 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
4066 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
4067 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
4068 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
4072 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
4075 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
4076 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
4080 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
4083 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
4087 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
4090 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
4091 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
4095 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4097 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
4098 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
4099 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
4100 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
4104 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
4107 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
4108 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
4109 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
4113 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4116 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4120 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4126 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4132 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4138 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4140 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4144 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4146 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4147 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4151 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4153 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4154 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4155 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4156 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4157 followed. Closes: #85483
4159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4161 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4163 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4164 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4165 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4169 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4171 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4172 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4173 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4174 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4175 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4176 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4177 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4178 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4179 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4180 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4181 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4182 Closes: #88464, #77743
4183 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4184 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4185 us to deal with that gracefully.
4186 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4188 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4189 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4190 a while, Closes: #51225
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4194 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4200 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4203 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4207 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4209 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4211 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4216 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4219 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4220 don't make packlist files.
4221 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4222 debhelper coding standards.
4223 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4224 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4228 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4231 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4235 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4238 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4239 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4240 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4241 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4242 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4243 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4244 but is mildly deprecated.
4245 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4246 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4247 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4248 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4249 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4250 switching to statoverrides..
4251 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4252 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4253 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4254 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4255 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4256 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4258 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4259 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4260 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4261 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4262 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4263 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4264 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4265 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4266 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4268 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4269 variable names, pod man pages).
4270 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4271 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4272 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4273 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4274 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4275 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4276 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4280 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4286 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4288 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4293 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4295 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4296 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4300 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4302 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4303 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4304 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4308 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4310 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4311 they were previously ignored.
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4315 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4317 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4318 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4322 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4324 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4325 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4326 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4330 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4332 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4336 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4338 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4339 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4343 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4345 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4346 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4347 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4348 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4349 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4350 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4351 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4352 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4353 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4354 it is an obsolete program.
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4358 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4360 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4364 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4368 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4370 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4374 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4376 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4378 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4380 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4384 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4390 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * typo: Closes, #78567
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4396 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4402 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4404 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4408 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4411 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4412 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4413 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4414 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4415 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4419 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4422 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4427 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4429 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4430 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4431 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4432 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4433 backwards-compatibility.
4435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4437 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4439 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4440 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4441 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4442 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4443 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4444 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4445 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4447 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4448 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4449 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4451 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4453 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4454 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4455 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4456 should now be raised to severity important..
4457 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4458 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4462 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4465 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4470 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4472 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4476 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4482 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4488 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4490 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4495 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4498 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4499 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4500 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4501 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4505 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4507 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4511 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4514 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4515 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4516 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4517 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4518 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4519 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4524 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4527 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4531 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4533 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4537 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4540 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4545 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4548 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4549 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4550 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4551 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4555 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4559 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4562 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4565 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4566 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4569 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4571 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4572 the TODO entry about it.
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4576 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4583 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4586 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4587 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4591 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4593 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4594 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4595 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4596 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4597 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4601 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4607 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4614 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4617 (this appears to be logal).
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4621 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4624 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4625 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4626 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4627 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4631 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4637 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4639 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4640 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4641 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4642 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4643 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4647 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4653 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4656 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4660 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4667 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4670 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4671 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4672 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4677 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4684 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4686 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4690 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4693 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4694 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4695 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4696 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4697 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4698 notice until v2 is complete.
4699 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
4700 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4701 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4702 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4703 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4704 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4706 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4707 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4708 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4709 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4713 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4719 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4721 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4726 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4729 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4733 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4740 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4742 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4743 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4744 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4745 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4746 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4751 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4753 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4754 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4755 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4756 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4761 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4763 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4764 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4765 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4769 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4772 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4776 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4779 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4783 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4790 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4793 depend on the build and install targets.
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4797 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4800 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4804 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4806 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4811 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4817 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4823 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4826 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4827 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4828 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4829 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4830 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4831 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4833 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4834 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4835 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4836 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4837 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4838 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4839 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4843 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4849 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4851 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4855 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4858 right place. Closes: #55065
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4862 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4869 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4871 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4872 * Copyright date updates.
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4876 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4879 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4884 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4886 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4890 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4897 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4899 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4903 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4905 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4909 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4915 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4917 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4918 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4919 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4920 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4921 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4922 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4923 bits until all files have been registered.
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4927 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4929 * dh_installmanpages:
4930 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4931 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4932 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4933 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4934 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4935 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4936 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4937 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4938 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4939 otherwise change the result at all.
4941 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4942 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4943 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4944 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4945 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4950 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4952 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4956 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4958 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4959 act on files that don't exist.
4960 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4961 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4962 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4964 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4965 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4966 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4967 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4971 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4977 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4983 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4985 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4986 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4990 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4992 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4993 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4995 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4996 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4997 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
5001 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5003 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
5004 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
5005 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
5006 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
5007 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
5008 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
5009 does not compress. Closes: #41733
5010 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
5012 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
5014 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
5016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
5018 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5020 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
5025 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
5029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
5031 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5033 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
5035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
5037 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5039 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
5040 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
5044 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
5048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
5050 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5052 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
5054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
5056 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5058 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
5059 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
5060 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
5061 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
5062 I made some changes, though:
5063 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
5064 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
5065 that is a clear violation of policy.
5066 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
5067 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
5068 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
5069 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
5070 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
5071 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
5072 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
5073 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
5074 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
5076 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
5078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
5080 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5082 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
5086 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
5089 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
5091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
5093 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5095 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
5096 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
5097 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
5102 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
5108 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
5115 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5118 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5119 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5120 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5121 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5122 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5123 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5124 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5128 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5130 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5134 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5138 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5139 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5143 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5145 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5149 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5152 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5156 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5159 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5160 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5164 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5166 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5171 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5175 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5179 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5181 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5182 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5183 for the dependancies to be generated.
5185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5187 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5189 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5190 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5194 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5196 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5197 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5198 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5199 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5204 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5206 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5207 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5208 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5212 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5218 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5220 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5224 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5226 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5227 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5231 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5233 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5237 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5240 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5241 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5242 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5243 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5244 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5245 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5246 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5247 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5248 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5249 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5250 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5251 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5255 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5257 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5258 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5259 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5261 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5262 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5263 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5264 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5265 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5266 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5268 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5269 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5273 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5276 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5280 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5282 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5287 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5289 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5290 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5295 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5298 for building debhelper.
5299 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5303 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5305 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5310 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5312 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5313 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5317 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5319 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5320 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5321 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5322 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5323 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5324 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5325 it's always available.
5327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5329 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5331 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5332 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5333 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5334 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5338 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5340 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5341 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5342 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5346 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5348 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5352 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5355 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5359 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5365 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5368 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5369 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5370 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5374 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5377 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5382 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5385 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5386 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5388 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5389 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5393 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5395 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5399 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5401 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5405 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5407 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5408 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5412 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5414 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5415 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5416 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5418 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5422 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5425 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5426 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5427 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5431 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5433 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5434 things if CDPATH is set.
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5438 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5444 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5446 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5447 seems to make sense for the transition.
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5451 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5453 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5454 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5459 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5461 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5462 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5463 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5467 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5469 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5470 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5474 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5476 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5477 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5478 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5479 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5480 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5484 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5486 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5490 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5492 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5493 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5494 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5495 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5496 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5497 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5498 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5499 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5500 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5501 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5502 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5507 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5510 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5511 * README: mention doc/v2
5512 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5513 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5517 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5519 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5520 be using this script RSN.
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5524 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5527 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5528 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5529 more than 1 init script.
5531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5533 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5535 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5536 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5540 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5542 * Changed perl version detection.
5543 * Changed call to find.
5545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5547 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5549 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5550 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5552 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5557 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5559 * Really include dh_installpam.
5561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5563 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5565 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5566 * Wrote man page for same.
5568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5570 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5572 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5573 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5574 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5579 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5586 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5588 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5589 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5590 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5591 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5592 x bit was being set!
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5596 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5598 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5599 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5600 well. (Closes: 38900)
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5604 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5607 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5608 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5612 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5614 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5618 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5620 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5625 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5631 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5633 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5634 help from Julian Gilbey.
5635 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5636 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5637 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5638 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5639 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5640 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5641 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5646 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5648 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5652 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5654 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5659 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5665 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5671 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5674 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5678 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5681 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5685 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5687 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5688 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5692 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5694 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5698 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5700 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5701 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5705 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5707 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5711 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5713 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5717 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5719 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5720 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5721 may be deleted. (#35845)
5723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5725 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5727 * Various man page enhancements.
5728 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5733 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5735 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5736 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5737 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5741 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5743 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5744 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5745 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5746 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5748 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5749 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5754 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5756 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5760 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5762 * Another very minor typo fix.
5764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5766 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5768 * Very minor typo fix.
5770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5772 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5774 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5775 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5776 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5780 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5782 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5786 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5788 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5789 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5790 variables properly (#34850).
5792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5794 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5796 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5800 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5802 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5803 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5804 (automatically generated by build process).
5806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5808 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5810 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5814 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5816 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5817 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5818 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5820 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5824 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5826 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5827 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5831 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5833 * README: minor typo fix.
5835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5837 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5839 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5840 leave it at that. :-)
5842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5844 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5846 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5850 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5852 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5856 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5858 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5859 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5860 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5861 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5865 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5867 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5868 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5872 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5874 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5875 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5879 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5881 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5882 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5883 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5884 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5885 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5889 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5891 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5892 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5893 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5894 Craig Small for spotting this.
5896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5898 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5900 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5901 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5902 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5906 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5908 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5912 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5914 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5915 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5919 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5921 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5922 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5923 working on the last version of debhelper.
5925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5927 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5929 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5930 being made. (#23255)
5932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5934 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5936 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5940 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5943 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5947 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5949 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5950 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5951 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5952 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5953 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5957 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5959 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5960 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5961 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5962 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5963 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5965 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5966 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5968 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5973 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5975 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5979 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5981 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5985 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5987 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5988 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5989 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5990 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5991 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5992 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5993 suidregister actually supports it.
5994 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5995 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5999 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
6001 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
6004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
6006 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
6008 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
6009 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
6010 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
6011 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
6012 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
6013 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
6014 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
6015 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
6017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
6019 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
6021 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
6022 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
6024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
6026 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
6028 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
6029 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
6030 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
6031 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
6032 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
6034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
6036 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
6038 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
6039 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
6041 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
6042 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
6043 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
6044 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
6045 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
6046 effect, either. (#30118)
6048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
6050 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
6052 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
6054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
6056 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
6058 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
6059 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
6060 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
6062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
6064 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
6066 * Spelling and typo fixes.
6068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
6070 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
6072 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
6073 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
6074 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
6075 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
6076 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
6078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
6080 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
6082 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
6083 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
6084 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
6086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
6088 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
6090 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
6092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
6094 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
6096 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
6097 packages, painlessly.
6099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
6101 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
6103 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
6105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
6107 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
6109 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
6111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
6113 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
6115 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6119 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6121 * The perl conversion is complete.
6123 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6125 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6126 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6127 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6132 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6134 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6135 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6136 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6137 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6141 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6143 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6144 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6146 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6148 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6149 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6153 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6155 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6156 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6157 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6161 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6163 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6167 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6169 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6170 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6171 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6172 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6173 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6174 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6178 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6180 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6181 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6182 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6183 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6184 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6188 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6190 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6191 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6195 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6197 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6198 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6199 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6200 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6201 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6202 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6203 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6204 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6205 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6209 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6211 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6215 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6217 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6218 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6219 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6220 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6225 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6227 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6228 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6232 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6234 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6235 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6239 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6241 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6242 sections of shared libraries.
6243 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6244 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6245 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6246 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6247 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6248 things you don't want them to.
6249 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6250 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6254 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6256 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6257 shared libraries. (#26414)
6259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6261 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6263 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6264 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6265 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6266 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6270 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6272 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6274 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6276 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6277 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6278 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6279 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6280 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6284 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6286 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6287 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6291 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6293 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6294 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6295 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6300 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6302 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6303 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6307 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6309 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6310 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6311 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6312 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6313 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6314 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6316 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6317 remove debian/files properly.
6318 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6319 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6320 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6321 * Removed bogus menu file.
6323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6325 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6327 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6328 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6332 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6334 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6335 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6336 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6337 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6338 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6339 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6340 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6344 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6346 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6347 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6348 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6349 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6350 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6354 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6356 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6361 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6363 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6364 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6365 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6367 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6368 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6369 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6370 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6371 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6372 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6376 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6378 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6379 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6380 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6381 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6382 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6383 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6384 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6385 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6386 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6387 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6388 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6389 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6390 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6391 passed any switches.
6392 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6396 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6398 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6399 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6400 at all for a long while.
6401 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6402 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6403 large chunks in the process.
6404 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6405 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6406 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6411 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6413 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6414 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6416 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6421 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6423 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6424 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6425 that don't always have the same files in them.
6426 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6427 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6428 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6432 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6434 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6436 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6437 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6438 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6439 updating 27 man pages.
6440 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6441 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6442 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6443 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6444 programs act on. (#25247)
6446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6448 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6452 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6453 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6454 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6455 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6456 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6457 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6462 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6464 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6469 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6471 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6476 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6478 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6479 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6483 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6485 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6489 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6491 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6492 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6493 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6494 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6495 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6496 package by accident.
6497 * Is version 1.0 next?
6499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6501 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6503 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6504 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6505 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6509 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6511 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6512 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6513 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6514 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6515 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6516 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6518 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6523 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6525 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6526 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6527 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6531 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6533 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6534 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6538 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6540 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6541 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6542 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6547 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6549 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6553 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6555 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6556 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6557 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6562 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6564 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6568 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6570 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6571 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6572 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6573 past week. Thanks, guys!
6575 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6576 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6577 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6578 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6579 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6580 would do in the same situation.
6581 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6582 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6584 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6586 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6587 permissions changed.
6588 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6589 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6590 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6591 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6592 files are treated identically.
6593 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6594 * Minor man page fixes.
6595 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6596 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6597 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6601 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6603 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6604 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6605 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6606 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6607 use -X multiple times, too.
6608 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6609 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6613 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6615 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6616 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6617 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6621 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6623 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6624 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6628 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6630 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6631 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6632 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6633 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6634 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6635 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6636 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6637 shape if you're starting a new package.
6639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6641 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6643 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6644 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6648 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6650 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6651 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6652 because of missing symlinks.
6654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6656 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6658 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6662 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6664 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6665 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6666 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6667 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6668 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6669 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6671 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6672 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6676 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6678 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6679 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6680 to be changed after the fact :-)
6681 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6685 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6687 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6688 no version string after the -V.
6690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6692 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6694 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6695 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6700 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6702 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6703 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6707 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6709 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6710 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6711 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6712 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6713 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6714 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6715 I always welcome corrections!
6717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6719 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6721 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6725 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6727 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6728 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6729 * Documented this new switch.
6731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6733 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6735 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6736 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6737 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6738 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6739 no packages use the old behavior.
6741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6743 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6745 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6746 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6747 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6751 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6753 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6754 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6758 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6760 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6764 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6766 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6767 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6771 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6773 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6774 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6775 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6776 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6780 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6782 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6786 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6788 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6789 into the source package by accident.
6791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6793 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6795 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6796 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6797 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6798 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6799 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6800 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6801 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6806 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6808 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6810 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6811 inspired to implement some of it.
6812 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6816 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6818 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6819 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6823 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6825 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6826 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6827 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6831 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6833 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6834 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6835 have done.) (#17598)
6837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6839 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6841 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6845 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6847 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6851 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6853 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6854 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6858 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6860 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6861 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6862 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6866 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6868 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6869 argument processor in perl.
6870 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6871 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6872 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6873 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6877 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6879 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6880 type directories. (#16933)
6881 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6882 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6883 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6884 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6885 are supported. (#16935)
6886 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6891 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6893 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6894 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6898 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6900 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6902 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6903 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6904 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6905 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6906 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6907 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6911 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6913 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6914 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6915 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6917 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6918 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6919 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6920 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6921 a given package, or -i or -a.
6922 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6923 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6924 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6925 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6926 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6927 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6928 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6929 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6930 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6932 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6933 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6934 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6938 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6940 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6941 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6942 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6947 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6949 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6950 does not have a section.
6952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6954 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6956 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6957 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6958 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6959 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6963 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6965 * Fixed typo #16215.
6967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6969 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6971 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6972 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6973 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6974 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6975 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6976 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6981 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6983 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6984 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6985 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6986 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6991 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6993 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6997 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6999 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
7001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
7003 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
7005 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
7006 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
7007 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
7008 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
7009 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
7010 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
7011 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
7013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
7015 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
7017 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
7019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
7021 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
7023 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
7024 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
7026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
7028 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
7030 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
7031 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
7032 the dh_* programs (#15497).
7033 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
7035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
7037 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
7039 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
7040 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
7042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
7044 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
7046 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
7048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
7050 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
7052 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
7053 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
7055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
7057 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
7059 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
7060 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
7062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
7064 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
7066 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
7068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
7070 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
7072 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
7073 postinst, postrm, etc.
7075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
7077 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
7079 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
7081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
7083 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
7085 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
7086 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
7087 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
7088 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
7089 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
7090 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
7092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
7094 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
7096 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
7097 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
7098 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
7100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
7102 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
7104 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
7105 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
7107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
7109 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
7111 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
7112 installing package files into.
7113 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7118 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7120 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7122 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7126 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7128 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7132 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7134 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7135 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7139 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7141 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7142 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7143 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7144 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7145 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7149 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7151 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7152 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7153 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7154 multiple binary packages.
7155 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7156 should rebuild them with this version.
7157 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7161 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7163 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7164 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7168 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7170 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7171 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7175 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7177 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7178 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7179 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7180 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7181 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7182 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7183 debian/README.debian.
7184 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7185 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7186 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7187 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7188 in a few situations.)
7190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7192 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7194 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7198 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7200 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7204 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7206 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7207 * Fixed several man pages.
7209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7211 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7213 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7214 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7215 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7219 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7221 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7222 is ready for general use.
7223 * Added man pages for all commands.
7224 * Multiple binary package support.
7225 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7226 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7227 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7229 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7230 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7231 auto-installed as parameters.
7232 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7234 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7237 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7238 the package build directory it is to act on.
7239 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7240 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7241 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7245 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7247 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7248 ready to replace debstd.
7250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400