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 (9.20120909) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
25 * autoscript() can now be passed a perl sub to run to s/// lines of
26 the script, which avoids problems with using sed, including potentially
27 building too long a sed command-line. This will become the recommended
28 interface in the future; for now it can be used by specific commands
29 such as dh_installxmlcatalogs that encounter the problem.
30 Closes: #665296 Thanks, Marcin Owsiany
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:23:10 -0400
34 debhelper (9.20120830) unstable; urgency=low
36 * dh_installcatalogs: Adjust catalog conffile conversion to avoid
37 dpkg conffile prompt when upgrading from a removed package.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:04:10 -0400
42 debhelper (9.20120608) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh: When there's an -indep override target without -arch, or vice versa,
45 avoid acting on packages covered by the override target when running
46 the command for packages not covered by it. Closes: #676462
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:15:48 -0400
50 debhelper (9.20120528) unstable; urgency=low
52 * dh_installcatalogs: Turn /etc/sgml/$package.cat into conffiles
53 and introduce dependency on trigger-based sgml-base. Closes: #477751
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 May 2012 13:40:26 -0400
58 debhelper (9.20120523) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #673629 Thanks, Omar Campagne
61 * Set Multi-Arch: foreign. Closes: #674193
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 May 2012 14:55:48 -0400
65 debhelper (9.20120518) unstable; urgency=low
67 * Fix versioned dependency on dpkg for xz options. Closes: #672895
68 * dh_link: Doc improvement. Closes: #672988
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 May 2012 11:05:03 -0400
72 debhelper (9.20120513) unstable; urgency=low
74 * Improve -v logging. Closes: #672448
75 * dh_builddeb: Build udebs with xz compression, level 1, extreme strategy.
76 This has been chosen to not need any more memory or cpu when uncompressing,
77 while yeilding the best compressions for udebs. Thanks, Philipp Kern.
78 * Depend on a new enough dpkg for above features. Backporters will need
79 to revert these changes.
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 May 2012 13:09:42 -0400
83 debhelper (9.20120509) unstable; urgency=low
85 * dh_installman: Recognize sections from mdoc .Dt entries. Closes: #670210
87 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #671598
88 * dh_install: Reorder documentation for clarity. Closes: #672109
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 May 2012 12:59:15 -0400
92 debhelper (9.20120419) unstable; urgency=low
94 * Fix compat level checking for cmake. Closes: #669181
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:35 -0400
98 debhelper (9.20120418) unstable; urgency=low
100 * cmake: Only pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS in v9.
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:39 -0400
104 debhelper (9.20120417) unstable; urgency=low
106 * cmake: Pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS. Closes: #668813
107 Thanks, Simon Ruderich for the patch and for verifying no affected
108 package is broken by this change.
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:29 -0400
112 debhelper (9.20120410) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891
116 * Conflict with too old automake for AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. Closes: #666901
117 * dh_md5sums: Don't skip DEBIAN directories other than the control files
121 * dh_installinit: rework upstart handling to comply with new policy
122 proposal; packages will ship both an init script and an upstart job,
123 instead of just an upstart job and a symlink to a compat wrapper.
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:51:15 -0400
128 debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
131 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
132 Added to interface documentation.
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400
137 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
143 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
146 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
147 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
148 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
150 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
151 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
152 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
153 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
154 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
159 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
161 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
162 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
163 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
164 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
165 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
166 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
167 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
171 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
173 * Typo. Closes: #653006
174 * Typo. Closes: #653339
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
178 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
180 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
181 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
182 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
183 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
184 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
185 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
189 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
191 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
192 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
193 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
194 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
195 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
196 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
197 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
198 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
202 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
208 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
210 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
211 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
212 may need to disable this.
213 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
214 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
215 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
216 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
220 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
222 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
223 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
224 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
228 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
230 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
231 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
232 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
234 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
235 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
236 to dh. Closes: #643069
237 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
238 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
242 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
244 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
245 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
246 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
247 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
248 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
250 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
251 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
252 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
254 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
255 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
256 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
257 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
258 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
259 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
260 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
261 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
262 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
263 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
264 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
265 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
266 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
267 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
268 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
272 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
274 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
279 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
281 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
282 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
284 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
290 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
293 Use override targets instead.
294 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
295 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
296 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
297 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
298 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
299 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
300 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
301 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
302 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
303 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
308 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
310 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
311 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
315 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
317 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
321 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
323 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
324 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
325 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
326 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
327 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
328 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
329 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
333 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
336 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
337 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
338 the targets. Closes: #629139
339 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
340 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
341 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
342 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
343 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
344 are already set to other values will not be changed.
346 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
347 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
348 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
349 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
350 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
355 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
357 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
361 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
363 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
364 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
365 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
369 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
371 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
372 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
373 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
374 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
375 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
376 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
377 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
378 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
383 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
386 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
387 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
388 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
390 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
391 changes may be added to that mode.
392 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
393 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
394 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
395 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
396 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
397 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
398 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
399 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
400 * Removed old example rules files.
401 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
405 * update french translation.
406 * Fix french misspelling.
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
410 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
413 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
417 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
420 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
421 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
422 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
423 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
424 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
425 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
426 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
430 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
433 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
434 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
435 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
436 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
437 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
438 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
440 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
441 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
442 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
443 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
444 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
445 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
446 (Thanks, David Prévot)
447 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
448 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
449 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
450 target fails. Closes: #601037
451 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
453 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
454 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
455 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
456 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
457 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
459 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
460 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
462 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
463 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
464 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
466 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
468 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
471 * update french translation.
472 * Fix french misspelling.
473 * French translation update after massive man page typography
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
477 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
483 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
487 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
489 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
493 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
495 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
496 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
497 introduced by the fix to #527990.
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
501 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
504 changes are planned for that mode.
505 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
506 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
507 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
508 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
509 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
510 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
511 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
512 (genesis) still uses them.
513 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
514 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
515 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
516 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
517 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
518 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
519 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
520 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
521 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
522 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
523 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
524 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
525 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
526 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
527 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
528 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
529 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
530 commands. (See #570039)
531 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
533 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
538 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
540 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
542 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
543 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
544 in control file or debhelper config files.
545 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
549 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
552 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
553 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
557 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
559 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
560 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
564 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
567 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
568 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
572 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
574 * Updated French translation.
575 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
576 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
577 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
578 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
580 * Typo. Closes: #571968
581 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
582 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
583 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
584 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
585 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
586 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
587 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
588 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
589 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
591 * dh: Improve documentation.
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
595 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
597 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
598 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
599 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
603 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
605 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
606 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
610 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
613 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
617 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
620 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
621 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
622 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
623 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
624 options that they do not support.
625 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
626 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
627 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
628 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
629 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
630 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
635 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
639 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
640 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
641 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
642 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
643 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
644 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
645 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
646 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
647 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
651 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
653 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
654 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
655 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
656 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
657 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
661 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
663 * Typo. Closes: #558654
664 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
665 installed. Closes: #558782
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
669 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
672 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
673 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
674 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
675 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
676 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
680 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
682 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
683 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
684 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
685 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
689 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
692 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
693 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
697 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
699 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
703 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
705 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
706 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
707 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
708 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
709 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
710 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
711 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
712 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
713 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
714 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
715 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
716 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
717 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
718 time soon.) Closes: #554509
719 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
721 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
722 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
723 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
724 document id. Closes: #555677
725 * Typo. Closes: #555659
726 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
727 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
728 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
729 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
731 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
732 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
733 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
738 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
741 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
742 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
743 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
744 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
745 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
746 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
747 translation (#494300 part 2)
750 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
752 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
753 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
754 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
755 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
756 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
760 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
762 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
763 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
764 (It was only run once due to logging.)
765 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
766 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
767 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
768 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
769 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
770 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
771 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
772 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
773 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
774 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
778 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
781 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
782 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
785 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
786 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
790 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
792 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
793 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
794 flag with arch all/any packages.
795 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
796 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
797 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
798 situation. Closes: #540794
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
802 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
804 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
806 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
807 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
808 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
809 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
810 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
813 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
814 the default. Closes: #538201
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
819 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
823 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
824 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
825 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
826 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
827 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
829 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
830 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
831 * Above Closes: #491117
832 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
837 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
840 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
843 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
844 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
845 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
849 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
852 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
853 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
854 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
855 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
856 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
861 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
864 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
865 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
869 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
871 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
875 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
877 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
878 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
880 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
881 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
882 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
886 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
888 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
889 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
893 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
895 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
899 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
901 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
902 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
903 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
908 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
910 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
914 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
917 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
918 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
919 created by using `python' first during build and install.
921 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
926 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
928 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
932 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
934 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
935 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
939 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
941 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
945 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
947 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
951 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
953 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
954 contributed by Modestas Vainius
955 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
956 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
957 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
958 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
959 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
960 that support it. Closes: #480577
961 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
962 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
963 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
965 - Adds support for cmake.
966 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
967 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
969 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
971 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
972 that use them. The options are:
973 --sourcedir, --destdir
974 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
975 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
976 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
977 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
978 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
982 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
988 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
991 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
992 default. Closes: #537140
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
996 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
999 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
1000 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
1004 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
1007 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
1011 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
1014 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
1018 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
1021 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
1023 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
1024 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
1025 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
1029 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
1032 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
1033 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
1034 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
1038 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
1041 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
1042 warning or deprecation message.
1043 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
1044 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
1045 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
1046 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
1047 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
1048 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
1049 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
1050 Closes: #534639, #357434
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
1054 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
1060 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
1063 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
1064 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
1065 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
1066 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
1068 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
1069 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
1070 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
1074 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
1080 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
1087 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
1090 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
1094 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
1098 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
1099 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
1101 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
1102 file support. Closes: #494914
1103 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
1107 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
1110 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
1111 parameters. Closes: #527256
1112 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
1113 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
1114 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
1118 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
1121 (Patch from #459548)
1122 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
1123 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
1124 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1128 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1131 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1132 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1133 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1137 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1140 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1141 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1143 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1144 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1145 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1149 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1153 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1157 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1160 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1161 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1162 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1163 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1168 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1174 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1177 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1178 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1179 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1180 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1181 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1183 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1184 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1185 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1186 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1187 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1188 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1192 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1195 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1196 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1197 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1198 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1199 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1201 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1205 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1207 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1211 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1213 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1214 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1215 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1216 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1217 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1218 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1219 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1220 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1221 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1222 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1223 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1227 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1229 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1230 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1232 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1233 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1234 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1235 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1237 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1238 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1242 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1244 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1245 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1246 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1247 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1248 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1249 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1250 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1252 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1253 that uses them. Affected options are:
1254 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1255 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1256 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1257 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1258 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1259 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1260 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1261 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1262 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1263 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1264 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1265 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1269 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1276 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1282 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1285 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1287 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1288 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1289 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1290 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1291 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1292 than the old method.
1293 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1295 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1296 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1297 rules (see bug #509756).
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1301 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1307 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1308 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1309 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1310 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1314 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1317 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1318 empty files. Closes: #490937
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1322 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1328 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1335 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1338 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1339 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1340 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1341 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1346 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1348 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1349 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1350 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1351 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1355 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1358 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1359 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1360 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1361 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1362 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1366 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1373 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1376 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1377 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1378 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1379 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1380 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1381 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1382 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1383 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1384 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1388 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1391 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1392 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1393 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1394 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1396 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1397 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1398 breaking backwards compatibility.
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1402 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1405 message in perl 5.10.
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1409 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1415 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1418 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1422 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1425 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1429 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1432 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1433 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1434 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1435 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1436 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1437 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1438 logging by dh_listpackages.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1442 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1445 run and there are no packages of that type.
1446 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1447 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1448 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1449 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1451 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1452 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1456 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1459 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1460 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1464 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1467 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1468 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1470 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1471 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1472 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1473 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1474 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1475 planned but not yet implemented.)
1476 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1477 if the Makefile has such a target.
1478 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1479 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1480 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1481 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1482 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1483 but not yet implemented.)
1484 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1485 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1486 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1487 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1488 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1490 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1492 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1493 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1495 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1496 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1497 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1502 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1505 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1506 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1510 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1512 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1513 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1514 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1518 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1524 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1530 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1533 just those installed by the program.
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1537 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1540 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1541 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1545 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1548 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1549 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1550 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1551 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1555 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1558 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1559 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1563 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1566 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1567 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1571 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1574 with policy. Closes: #461392
1575 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1576 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1577 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1578 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1579 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1583 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1586 Closes: #460340, #460351
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1590 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1593 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1594 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1595 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1596 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1600 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1603 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1604 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1605 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1606 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1607 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1608 package build directory won't work.
1609 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1610 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1611 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1612 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1613 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1614 mode. Closes: #459426
1615 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1620 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1623 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1627 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1631 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1632 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1633 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1634 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1635 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1636 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1640 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1643 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1644 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1645 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1646 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1650 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1653 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1654 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1655 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1656 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1657 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1661 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1664 debian/package.triggers files.
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1668 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1671 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1675 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1678 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1679 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1680 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1681 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1686 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1689 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1693 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1696 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1697 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1699 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1704 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1708 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1709 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1710 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1714 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1721 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1728 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1731 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1733 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1734 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1735 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1737 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1738 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1739 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1743 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1746 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1747 * Update urls to web page.
1748 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1749 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1750 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1751 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1755 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1758 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1759 - typo in alternatives call
1760 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1762 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1763 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1767 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1770 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1775 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1781 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1787 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1790 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1792 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1793 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1794 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1795 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1796 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1797 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1798 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1799 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1800 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1801 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1802 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1806 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1809 package install. Closes: #415717
1810 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1811 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1812 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1813 script and then remove the python files.
1814 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1815 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1816 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1817 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1818 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1819 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1820 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1821 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1822 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1823 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1824 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1825 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1826 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1830 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Correct typo in french translation
1836 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1837 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1839 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1841 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1842 Closes: #406921, #381940
1843 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1845 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1846 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1847 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1848 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1849 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1850 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1851 specified). Closes: #381851
1852 * Misc minor changes.
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1856 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1863 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1864 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1868 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1874 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1875 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1878 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1879 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1881 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1882 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1883 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1884 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1888 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1891 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1894 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1898 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1904 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1910 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1911 a difficult situation.
1912 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1913 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1914 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1915 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1916 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1917 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1918 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1919 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1920 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1921 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1925 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Non-maintainer upload.
1928 * Update of dh_python
1929 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1930 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1932 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1933 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1934 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1935 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1936 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1938 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1940 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Non-maintainer upload.
1943 * Update of dh_python
1944 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1945 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1946 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1947 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1948 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1949 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1950 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1951 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1952 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1953 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1955 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1956 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1957 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1958 the not too-distant future).
1959 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1960 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1961 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1962 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1963 thus made the build fail.
1965 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1967 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Non-maintainer upload.
1970 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1972 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1974 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1977 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1978 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1979 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1980 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1981 package. Closes: #301424
1982 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1983 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1984 fonts). Closes: #372686
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1988 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1994 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1995 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1996 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1997 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1998 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1999 above, but already depends on that.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
2003 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
2006 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
2007 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
2008 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
2009 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
2010 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
2014 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
2020 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
2026 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
2027 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
2031 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
2034 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
2038 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
2042 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
2043 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
2044 new version (0.24.1).
2045 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
2046 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
2049 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
2050 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
2051 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
2052 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
2053 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
2054 new directory on their own.
2055 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
2056 * Fix broken directory removal code.
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
2060 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
2063 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
2064 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
2065 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
2066 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
2070 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
2073 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
2074 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
2075 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
2076 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
2077 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
2081 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
2087 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * Typo. Closes: #358904
2091 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
2092 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
2096 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2097 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
2101 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
2103 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
2104 || exit 0 instead of the intended
2106 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
2107 ignored. Closes: #337664
2109 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
2114 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
2120 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
2125 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
2126 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2127 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2128 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2129 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2130 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2131 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2135 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2138 version. Closes: #350607
2139 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2140 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2141 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2142 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2146 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2149 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2150 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2151 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2155 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2162 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2168 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2171 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2175 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2178 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2179 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2180 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2181 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2182 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2183 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2187 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2190 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2191 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2196 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2199 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2203 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2206 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2210 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2213 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2214 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2215 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2216 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2217 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2218 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2222 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2226 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2227 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2228 link. Closes: #346405
2229 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2231 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2232 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2233 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2234 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2235 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2236 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2237 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2241 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2248 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2254 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2257 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2261 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2264 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2269 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2273 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2274 installed. Closes: #342033
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2278 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2281 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2282 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2283 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2288 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2294 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2300 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2304 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2305 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2306 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2310 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2313 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2318 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2325 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2331 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2334 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2335 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2336 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2337 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2338 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2339 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2340 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2342 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2346 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2349 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2350 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2354 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2357 in standard man dirs.
2358 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2362 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2368 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2371 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2376 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2383 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2390 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2393 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2394 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2398 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2401 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2402 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2403 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2405 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2407 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2413 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2419 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2422 mode. Closes: #324161
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2426 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2429 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2430 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2431 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2432 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2437 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2440 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2441 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2442 is necesary for sanity.
2443 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2444 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2449 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2451 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2452 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2456 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2459 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2463 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2469 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2472 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2473 released, so use at your own risk.
2474 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2475 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2477 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2478 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2479 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2480 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2481 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2482 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2483 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2484 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2485 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2486 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2487 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2488 including twice per config file line now..
2489 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2490 and simplfy the rules file.
2491 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2492 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2493 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2495 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2496 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2500 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2503 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2507 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2510 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2514 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2517 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2521 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2524 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2525 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2526 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2527 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2528 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2529 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2533 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2536 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2537 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2538 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2543 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2546 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2547 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2552 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2555 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2556 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2557 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2562 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2565 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2566 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2567 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2571 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2577 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2584 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2587 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2588 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2589 unknown. Closes: #282924
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2593 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2600 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Spanish man page updates.
2603 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2608 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2614 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2617 * dh_desktop: reindent
2618 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2619 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2623 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2629 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2631 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2635 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2637 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2641 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2644 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2645 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2649 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2655 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2661 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2668 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2671 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2675 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2678 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2679 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2680 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2681 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2682 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2683 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2685 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2686 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2687 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2688 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2689 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2690 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2691 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2692 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2693 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2694 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2695 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2696 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2697 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2698 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2699 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2700 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2704 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2711 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2714 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2718 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2721 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2725 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2728 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2732 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2735 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2739 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2745 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2751 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2757 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2760 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2761 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2762 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2766 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2769 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2773 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2776 but occasionally right and necessary.
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2780 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2783 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2784 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2785 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2786 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2787 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2791 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2794 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2796 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2797 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2798 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2799 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2800 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2801 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2802 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2803 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2804 postinst scripts for udebs.
2805 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2809 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2812 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2814 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2815 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2819 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2825 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2832 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2839 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2842 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2846 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2849 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2853 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2856 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2859 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2860 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2864 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2870 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2873 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2877 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2880 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2881 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2882 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2884 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2886 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2887 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2888 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2892 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2895 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2900 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2903 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2904 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2905 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2910 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2916 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2922 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2925 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2926 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2927 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2928 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2929 associated -dbg packages.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2933 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2936 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2940 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2943 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2947 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2950 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2954 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2957 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2962 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2965 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2969 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2972 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2977 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2980 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2984 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2988 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2989 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2990 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2991 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2992 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2993 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2994 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2995 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2996 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2997 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
3001 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
3004 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
3009 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
3012 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
3013 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
3017 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
3020 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
3021 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
3026 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
3029 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
3033 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
3036 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
3040 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
3043 out section number. Closes: #204731
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
3047 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
3054 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
3060 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
3066 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * Typo, Closes: #203907
3069 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
3070 removal. Closes: #204286
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
3074 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
3077 renaming. Closes: #203548
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
3081 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
3084 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
3085 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
3089 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
3095 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
3101 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
3107 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
3110 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
3111 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
3112 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
3116 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
3119 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
3120 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
3124 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3130 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3137 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3140 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3145 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3148 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3152 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3155 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3157 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3158 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3162 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3165 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3170 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3173 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3177 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3183 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3185 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3189 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3192 it break hard links (see #188663).
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3196 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3199 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3203 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3209 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3213 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3214 debconf-mergetemplates
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3218 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3221 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3225 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3228 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3232 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3235 * Update debhelper(1).
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3239 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3242 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3243 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3244 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3245 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3246 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3250 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3253 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3254 the shell. Closes: #178524
3255 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3259 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3262 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3266 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3269 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3273 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3276 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3277 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3278 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3279 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3284 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3287 files from installation.
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3291 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3294 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3295 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3299 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3302 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3306 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3309 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3313 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3319 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3325 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3329 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3330 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3332 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3336 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3339 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3340 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3341 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3342 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3346 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3349 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3353 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3356 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3357 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3361 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3365 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3370 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3376 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3380 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3381 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3382 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3387 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3390 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3391 practice. Closes: #163303
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3395 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3401 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3408 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3411 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3413 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3414 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3415 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3416 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3417 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3421 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3424 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3429 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3435 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3442 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3445 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3450 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3456 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3462 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3468 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3475 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3478 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3479 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3480 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3481 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3486 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3492 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3499 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3502 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3503 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3507 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3510 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3511 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3512 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3513 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3514 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3518 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3521 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3523 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3528 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3531 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3535 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3538 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3539 right thing. Closes: #150644
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3543 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3545 * Stupid, evil typo.
3546 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3550 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3557 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3560 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3561 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3566 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3572 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3575 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3579 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3582 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3583 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3588 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3591 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3595 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3601 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3604 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3605 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3609 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3615 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3617 * Removing perl warning message.
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3621 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3624 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3625 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3626 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3627 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3628 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3629 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3630 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3631 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3635 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3641 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3648 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3651 debconf-mergetemplate.
3652 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3653 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3657 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3660 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3661 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3662 dh_install, which ...
3663 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3664 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3665 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3666 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3667 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3668 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3669 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3670 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3671 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3672 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3673 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3674 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3675 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3676 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3677 other minor changes.
3678 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3679 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3680 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3681 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3682 course there's -X ..)
3683 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3684 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3685 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3687 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3688 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3689 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3690 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3691 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3696 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3702 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3705 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3709 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3715 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3721 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3727 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3733 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3736 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3737 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3738 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3739 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3741 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3742 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3746 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3752 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3754 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3755 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3759 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3762 upset. Closes: #131322
3764 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3766 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3769 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3770 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3771 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3772 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3773 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3774 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3775 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3776 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3777 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3778 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3779 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3780 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3781 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3782 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3783 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3785 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3789 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3792 - Better indenting of generated code.
3793 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3797 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3801 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3802 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3803 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3804 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3805 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3806 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3807 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3811 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3814 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3818 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3821 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3822 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3823 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3824 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3825 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3826 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3827 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3828 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3829 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3830 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3831 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3832 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3833 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3834 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3835 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3840 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3846 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3849 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3850 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3854 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3857 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3858 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3862 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3868 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3871 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3872 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3873 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3874 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3875 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3880 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3886 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3889 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3893 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3896 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3901 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3907 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3910 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3914 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3920 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3924 Also some indentation fixes.
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3928 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3931 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3932 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3933 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3934 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3935 Closes: #106514, #85520
3937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3939 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3941 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3945 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3947 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3951 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3953 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3957 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3963 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3969 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3972 change it in debhelper v4..
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3976 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3982 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3985 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3989 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3992 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3996 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3998 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
4000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
4002 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4004 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
4005 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
4006 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
4007 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
4008 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
4009 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
4010 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
4011 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
4012 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
4013 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
4014 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
4015 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
4016 prefixed with ".debhelper")
4018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
4020 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4022 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
4023 look just like shared libs, but are not.
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
4027 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4029 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
4034 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
4037 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
4038 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
4039 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
4040 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
4041 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
4042 program those options go to. So, for example,
4043 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
4044 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
4045 something complex. Closes: #89311
4046 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
4050 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
4053 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
4054 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
4055 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
4059 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
4062 through loop. Closes: #98598
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
4066 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * Missing semi-colon.
4069 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
4070 this (dh_* should be called, really).
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
4074 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
4077 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
4078 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
4079 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
4083 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
4086 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
4087 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
4091 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
4094 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
4096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
4098 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4100 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
4101 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
4102 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
4106 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
4109 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
4110 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
4111 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
4115 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
4118 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
4119 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
4120 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
4124 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4127 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4131 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4137 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4143 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4149 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4155 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4158 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4162 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4165 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4166 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4167 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4168 followed. Closes: #85483
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4172 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4174 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4175 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4176 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4180 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4183 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4184 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4185 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4186 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4187 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4188 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4189 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4190 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4191 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4192 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4193 Closes: #88464, #77743
4194 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4195 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4196 us to deal with that gracefully.
4197 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4199 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4200 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4201 a while, Closes: #51225
4203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4205 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4211 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4213 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4214 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4218 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4222 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4227 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4229 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4230 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4231 don't make packlist files.
4232 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4233 debhelper coding standards.
4234 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4235 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4239 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4241 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4242 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4246 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4248 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4249 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4250 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4251 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4252 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4253 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4254 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4255 but is mildly deprecated.
4256 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4257 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4258 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4259 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4260 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4261 switching to statoverrides..
4262 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4263 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4264 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4265 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4266 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4267 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4269 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4270 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4271 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4272 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4273 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4274 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4275 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4276 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4277 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4279 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4280 variable names, pod man pages).
4281 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4282 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4283 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4284 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4285 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4286 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4287 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4291 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4297 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4304 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4307 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4311 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4313 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4314 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4315 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4319 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4321 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4322 they were previously ignored.
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4326 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4328 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4329 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4333 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4335 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4336 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4337 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4341 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4343 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4347 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4349 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4350 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4354 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4356 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4357 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4358 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4359 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4360 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4361 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4362 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4363 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4364 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4365 it is an obsolete program.
4367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4369 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4371 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4375 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4377 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4379 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4381 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4383 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4385 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4387 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4389 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4391 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4395 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4401 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * typo: Closes, #78567
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4407 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4413 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4415 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4419 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4422 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4423 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4424 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4425 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4426 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4430 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4433 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4438 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4441 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4442 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4443 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4444 backwards-compatibility.
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4448 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4451 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4452 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4453 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4454 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4455 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4456 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4458 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4459 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4460 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4462 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4464 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4465 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4466 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4467 should now be raised to severity important..
4468 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4469 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4473 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4476 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4481 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4487 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4489 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4493 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4495 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4499 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4501 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4506 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4508 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4509 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4510 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4511 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4512 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4516 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4522 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4524 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4525 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4526 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4527 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4528 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4529 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4530 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4535 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4538 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4542 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4548 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4551 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4556 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4558 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4559 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4560 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4561 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4562 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4566 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4568 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4570 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4573 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4576 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4577 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4580 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4582 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4583 the TODO entry about it.
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4587 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4594 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4597 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4598 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4602 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4604 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4605 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4606 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4607 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4608 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4612 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4614 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4618 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4620 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4625 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4627 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4628 (this appears to be logal).
4630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4632 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4634 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4635 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4636 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4637 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4638 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4642 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4644 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4648 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4650 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4651 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4652 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4653 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4654 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4658 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4660 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4664 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4666 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4667 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4671 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4673 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4678 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4680 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4681 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4682 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4683 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4688 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4695 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4697 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4701 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4703 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4704 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4705 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4706 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4707 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4708 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4709 notice until v2 is complete.
4710 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
4711 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4712 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4713 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4714 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4715 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4717 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4718 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4719 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4720 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4724 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4730 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4732 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4737 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4740 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4744 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4751 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4753 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4754 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4755 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4756 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4757 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4762 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4765 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4766 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4767 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4772 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4775 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4776 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4780 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4783 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4787 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4790 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4794 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4796 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4801 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4803 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4804 depend on the build and install targets.
4806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4808 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4810 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4811 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4815 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4817 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4822 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4824 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4828 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4830 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4834 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4836 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4837 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4838 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4839 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4840 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4841 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4842 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4844 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4845 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4846 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4847 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4848 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4849 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4850 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4854 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4860 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4866 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4868 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4869 right place. Closes: #55065
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4873 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4880 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4882 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4883 * Copyright date updates.
4885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4887 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4889 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4890 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4895 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4901 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4908 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4910 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4914 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4920 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4922 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4926 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4928 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4929 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4930 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4931 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4932 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4933 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4934 bits until all files have been registered.
4936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4938 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4940 * dh_installmanpages:
4941 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4942 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4943 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4944 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4945 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4946 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4947 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4948 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4949 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4950 otherwise change the result at all.
4952 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4953 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4954 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4955 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4956 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4961 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4963 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4967 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4969 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4970 act on files that don't exist.
4971 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4972 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4973 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4975 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4976 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4977 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4978 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4982 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4988 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4994 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4996 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4997 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
5001 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5003 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
5004 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
5006 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
5007 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
5008 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
5010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
5012 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5014 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
5015 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
5016 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
5017 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
5018 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
5019 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
5020 does not compress. Closes: #41733
5021 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
5023 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
5025 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
5029 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
5036 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
5042 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
5048 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
5051 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
5053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
5055 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5057 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
5061 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5063 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
5065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
5067 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5069 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
5070 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
5071 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
5072 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
5073 I made some changes, though:
5074 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
5075 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
5076 that is a clear violation of policy.
5077 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
5078 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
5079 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
5080 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
5081 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
5082 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
5083 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
5084 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
5085 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
5087 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
5089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
5091 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5093 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
5095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
5097 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5099 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
5100 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
5102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
5104 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5106 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
5107 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
5108 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
5111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
5113 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5115 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
5119 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
5126 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5129 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5130 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5131 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5132 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5133 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5134 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5135 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5139 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5145 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5149 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5150 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5154 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5160 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5162 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5163 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5167 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5169 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5170 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5171 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5175 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5177 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5182 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5184 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5186 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5190 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5193 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5194 for the dependancies to be generated.
5196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5198 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5200 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5201 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5205 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5207 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5208 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5209 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5210 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5215 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5217 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5218 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5219 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5223 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5229 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5231 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5235 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5237 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5238 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5242 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5244 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5248 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5250 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5251 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5252 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5253 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5254 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5255 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5256 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5257 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5258 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5259 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5260 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5261 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5262 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5266 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5269 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5270 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5272 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5273 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5274 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5275 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5276 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5277 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5279 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5280 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5284 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5287 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5291 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5298 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5301 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5306 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5308 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5309 for building debhelper.
5310 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5314 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5316 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5321 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5323 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5324 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5328 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5331 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5332 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5333 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5334 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5335 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5336 it's always available.
5338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5340 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5342 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5343 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5344 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5345 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5349 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5352 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5353 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5357 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5359 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5363 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5365 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5366 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5370 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5372 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5376 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5378 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5379 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5380 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5381 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5385 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5387 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5388 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5393 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5395 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5396 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5397 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5399 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5400 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5404 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5410 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5412 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5416 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5418 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5419 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5423 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5425 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5426 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5427 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5429 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5433 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5435 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5436 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5437 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5438 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5442 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5445 things if CDPATH is set.
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5449 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5455 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5458 seems to make sense for the transition.
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5462 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5465 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5470 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5472 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5473 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5474 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5478 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5480 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5481 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5485 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5487 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5488 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5489 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5490 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5491 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5495 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5497 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5501 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5503 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5504 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5505 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5506 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5507 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5508 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5509 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5510 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5511 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5512 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5513 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
5516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5518 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5520 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5521 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5522 * README: mention doc/v2
5523 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5524 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5528 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5530 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5531 be using this script RSN.
5533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5535 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5537 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5538 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5539 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5540 more than 1 init script.
5542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5544 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5546 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5547 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5551 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5553 * Changed perl version detection.
5554 * Changed call to find.
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5558 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5561 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5563 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5568 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5570 * Really include dh_installpam.
5572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5574 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5576 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5577 * Wrote man page for same.
5579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5581 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5583 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5584 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5585 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5590 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5592 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5597 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5599 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5600 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5601 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5602 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5603 x bit was being set!
5605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5607 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5609 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5610 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5611 well. (Closes: 38900)
5613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5615 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5617 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5618 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5619 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5623 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5625 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5629 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5631 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5636 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5638 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5642 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5645 help from Julian Gilbey.
5646 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5647 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5648 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5649 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5650 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5651 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5652 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5657 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5663 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5670 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5676 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5678 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5682 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5684 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5685 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5689 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5691 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5692 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5696 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5698 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5699 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5703 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5705 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5709 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5711 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5712 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5716 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5718 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5722 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5724 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5728 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5730 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5731 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5732 may be deleted. (#35845)
5734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5736 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5738 * Various man page enhancements.
5739 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5744 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5746 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5747 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5748 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5752 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5754 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5755 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5756 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5757 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5759 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5760 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5765 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5767 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5771 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * Another very minor typo fix.
5775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5777 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5779 * Very minor typo fix.
5781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5783 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5785 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5786 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5787 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5791 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5793 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5797 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5799 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5800 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5801 variables properly (#34850).
5803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5805 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5807 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5811 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5813 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5814 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5815 (automatically generated by build process).
5817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5819 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5821 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5825 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5827 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5828 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5829 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5831 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5835 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5837 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5838 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5842 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5844 * README: minor typo fix.
5846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5848 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5850 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5851 leave it at that. :-)
5853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5855 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5857 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5861 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5863 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5867 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5869 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5870 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5871 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5872 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5876 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5878 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5879 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5883 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5885 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5886 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5890 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5892 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5893 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5894 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5895 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5896 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5900 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5902 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5903 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5904 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5905 Craig Small for spotting this.
5907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5909 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5911 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5912 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5913 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5917 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5919 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5923 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5925 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5926 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5930 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5932 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5933 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5934 working on the last version of debhelper.
5936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5938 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5940 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5941 being made. (#23255)
5943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5945 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5947 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5951 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5953 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5954 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5958 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5960 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5961 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5962 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5963 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5964 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5968 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5970 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5971 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5972 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5973 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5974 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5976 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5977 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5979 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5984 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5986 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5990 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5992 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5996 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5998 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5999 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
6000 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
6001 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
6002 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
6003 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
6004 suidregister actually supports it.
6005 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
6006 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
6008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
6010 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
6012 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
6015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
6017 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
6019 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
6020 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
6021 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
6022 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
6023 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
6024 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
6025 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
6026 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
6028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
6030 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
6032 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
6033 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
6035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
6037 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
6039 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
6040 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
6041 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
6042 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
6043 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
6045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
6047 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
6049 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
6050 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
6052 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
6053 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
6054 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
6055 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
6056 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
6057 effect, either. (#30118)
6059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
6061 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
6063 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
6065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
6067 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
6069 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
6070 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
6071 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
6073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
6075 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
6077 * Spelling and typo fixes.
6079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
6081 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
6083 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
6084 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
6085 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
6086 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
6087 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
6089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
6091 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
6093 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
6094 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
6095 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
6097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
6099 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
6101 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
6103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
6105 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
6107 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
6108 packages, painlessly.
6110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
6112 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
6114 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
6116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
6118 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
6120 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
6122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
6124 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
6126 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6130 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6132 * The perl conversion is complete.
6134 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6136 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6137 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6138 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6143 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6145 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6146 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6147 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6148 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6152 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6154 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6155 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6157 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6159 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6160 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6164 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6166 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6167 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6168 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6172 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6174 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6178 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6180 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6181 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6182 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6183 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6184 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6185 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6189 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6191 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6192 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6193 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6194 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6195 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6199 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6201 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6202 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6206 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6208 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6209 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6210 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6211 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6212 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6213 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6214 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6215 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6216 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6220 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6222 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6226 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6228 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6229 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6230 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6231 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6236 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6238 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6239 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6243 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6245 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6246 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6250 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6252 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6253 sections of shared libraries.
6254 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6255 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6256 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6257 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6258 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6259 things you don't want them to.
6260 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6261 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6265 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6267 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6268 shared libraries. (#26414)
6270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6272 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6274 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6275 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6276 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6277 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6281 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6283 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6285 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6287 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6288 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6289 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6290 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6291 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6295 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6297 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6298 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6302 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6304 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6305 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6306 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6311 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6313 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6314 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6318 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6320 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6321 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6322 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6323 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6324 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6325 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6327 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6328 remove debian/files properly.
6329 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6330 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6331 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6332 * Removed bogus menu file.
6334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6336 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6338 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6339 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6343 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6345 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6346 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6347 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6348 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6349 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6350 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6351 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6355 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6357 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6358 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6359 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6360 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6361 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6365 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6367 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6372 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6374 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6375 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6376 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6378 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6379 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6380 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6381 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6382 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6383 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6387 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6389 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6390 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6391 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6392 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6393 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6394 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6395 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6396 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6397 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6398 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6399 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6400 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6401 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6402 passed any switches.
6403 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6407 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6409 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6410 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6411 at all for a long while.
6412 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6413 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6414 large chunks in the process.
6415 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6416 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6417 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6422 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6424 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6425 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6427 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6432 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6434 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6435 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6436 that don't always have the same files in them.
6437 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6438 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6439 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6443 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6445 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6447 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6448 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6449 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6450 updating 27 man pages.
6451 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6452 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6453 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6454 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6455 programs act on. (#25247)
6457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6459 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6463 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6464 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6465 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6466 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6467 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6468 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6473 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6475 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6480 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6482 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6487 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6489 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6490 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6494 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6496 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6500 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6502 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6503 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6504 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6505 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6506 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6507 package by accident.
6508 * Is version 1.0 next?
6510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6512 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6514 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6515 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6516 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6520 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6522 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6523 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6524 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6525 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6526 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6527 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6529 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6534 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6536 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6537 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6538 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6542 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6544 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6545 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6549 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6551 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6552 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6553 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6558 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6560 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6564 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6566 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6567 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6568 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6573 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6575 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6579 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6581 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6582 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6583 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6584 past week. Thanks, guys!
6586 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6587 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6588 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6589 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6590 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6591 would do in the same situation.
6592 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6593 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6595 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6597 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6598 permissions changed.
6599 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6600 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6601 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6602 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6603 files are treated identically.
6604 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6605 * Minor man page fixes.
6606 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6607 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6608 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6612 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6614 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6615 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6616 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6617 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6618 use -X multiple times, too.
6619 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6620 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6624 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6626 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6627 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6628 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6632 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6634 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6635 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6639 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6641 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6642 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6643 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6644 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6645 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6646 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6647 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6648 shape if you're starting a new package.
6650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6652 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6654 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6655 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6659 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6661 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6662 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6663 because of missing symlinks.
6665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6667 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6669 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6673 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6675 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6676 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6677 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6678 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6679 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6680 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6682 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6683 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6687 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6689 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6690 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6691 to be changed after the fact :-)
6692 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6696 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6698 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6699 no version string after the -V.
6701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6703 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6705 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6706 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6711 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6713 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6714 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6718 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6720 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6721 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6722 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6723 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6724 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6725 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6726 I always welcome corrections!
6728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6730 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6732 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6736 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6738 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6739 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6740 * Documented this new switch.
6742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6744 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6746 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6747 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6748 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6749 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6750 no packages use the old behavior.
6752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6754 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6756 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6757 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6758 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6762 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6764 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6765 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6769 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6771 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6775 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6777 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6778 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6782 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6784 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6785 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6786 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6787 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6791 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6793 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6797 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6799 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6800 into the source package by accident.
6802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6804 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6806 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6807 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6808 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6809 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6810 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6811 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6812 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6817 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6819 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6821 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6822 inspired to implement some of it.
6823 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6827 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6829 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6830 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6834 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6836 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6837 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6838 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6842 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6844 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6845 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6846 have done.) (#17598)
6848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6850 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6852 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6856 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6858 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6862 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6864 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6865 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6869 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6871 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6872 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6873 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6877 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6879 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6880 argument processor in perl.
6881 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6882 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6883 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6884 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6888 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6890 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6891 type directories. (#16933)
6892 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6893 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6894 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6895 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6896 are supported. (#16935)
6897 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6902 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6904 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6905 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6909 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6911 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6913 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6914 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6915 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6916 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6917 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6918 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6922 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6924 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6925 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6926 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6928 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6929 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6930 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6931 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6932 a given package, or -i or -a.
6933 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6934 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6935 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6936 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6937 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6938 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6939 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6940 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6941 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6943 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6944 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6945 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6949 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6951 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6952 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6953 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6958 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6960 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6961 does not have a section.
6963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6965 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6967 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6968 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6969 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6970 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6974 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6976 * Fixed typo #16215.
6978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6980 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6982 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6983 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6984 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6985 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6986 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6987 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6992 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6994 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6995 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6996 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6997 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
7000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
7002 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
7004 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
7006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
7008 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
7010 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
7012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
7014 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
7016 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
7017 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
7018 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
7019 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
7020 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
7021 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
7022 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
7024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
7026 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
7028 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
7030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
7032 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
7034 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
7035 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
7037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
7039 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
7041 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
7042 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
7043 the dh_* programs (#15497).
7044 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
7046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
7048 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
7050 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
7051 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
7053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
7055 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
7057 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
7059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
7061 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
7063 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
7064 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
7066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
7068 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
7070 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
7071 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
7073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
7075 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
7077 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
7079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
7081 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
7083 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
7084 postinst, postrm, etc.
7086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
7088 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
7090 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
7092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
7094 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
7096 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
7097 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
7098 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
7099 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
7100 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
7101 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
7103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
7105 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
7107 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
7108 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
7109 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
7111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
7113 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
7115 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
7116 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
7118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
7120 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
7122 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
7123 installing package files into.
7124 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7129 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7131 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7133 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7137 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7139 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7143 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7145 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7146 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7150 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7152 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7153 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7154 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7155 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7156 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7160 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7162 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7163 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7164 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7165 multiple binary packages.
7166 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7167 should rebuild them with this version.
7168 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7172 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7174 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7175 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7179 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7181 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7182 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7186 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7188 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7189 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7190 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7191 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7192 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7193 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7194 debian/README.debian.
7195 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7196 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7197 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7198 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7199 in a few situations.)
7201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7203 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7205 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7209 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7211 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7215 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7217 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7218 * Fixed several man pages.
7220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7222 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7224 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7225 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7226 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7230 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7232 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7233 is ready for general use.
7234 * Added man pages for all commands.
7235 * Multiple binary package support.
7236 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7237 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7238 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7240 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7241 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7242 auto-installed as parameters.
7243 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7245 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7248 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7249 the package build directory it is to act on.
7250 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7251 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7252 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7256 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7258 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7259 ready to replace debstd.
7261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400