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 * dh_installmime: No longer makes maintainer scripts run update-mime and
9 update-mime-database, that is now handled by triggers. Closes: #684689
10 Thanks, Charles Plessy
11 * python distutils buildsystem: Propigate failure of pyversions.
12 Closes: #683551 Thanks, Clint Byrum
13 * dh_icons: Improve documentation. Closes: #684895
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:51:07 -0600
17 debhelper (9.20120608) unstable; urgency=low
19 * dh: When there's an -indep override target without -arch, or vice versa,
20 avoid acting on packages covered by the override target when running
21 the command for packages not covered by it. Closes: #676462
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:15:48 -0400
25 debhelper (9.20120528) unstable; urgency=low
27 * dh_installcatalogs: Turn /etc/sgml/$package.cat into conffiles
28 and introduce dependency on trigger-based sgml-base. Closes: #477751
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 May 2012 13:40:26 -0400
33 debhelper (9.20120523) unstable; urgency=low
35 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #673629 Thanks, Omar Campagne
36 * Set Multi-Arch: foreign. Closes: #674193
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 May 2012 14:55:48 -0400
40 debhelper (9.20120518) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Fix versioned dependency on dpkg for xz options. Closes: #672895
43 * dh_link: Doc improvement. Closes: #672988
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 May 2012 11:05:03 -0400
47 debhelper (9.20120513) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Improve -v logging. Closes: #672448
50 * dh_builddeb: Build udebs with xz compression, level 1, extreme strategy.
51 This has been chosen to not need any more memory or cpu when uncompressing,
52 while yeilding the best compressions for udebs. Thanks, Philipp Kern.
53 * Depend on a new enough dpkg for above features. Backporters will need
54 to revert these changes.
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 May 2012 13:09:42 -0400
58 debhelper (9.20120509) unstable; urgency=low
60 * dh_installman: Recognize sections from mdoc .Dt entries. Closes: #670210
62 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #671598
63 * dh_install: Reorder documentation for clarity. Closes: #672109
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 May 2012 12:59:15 -0400
67 debhelper (9.20120419) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Fix compat level checking for cmake. Closes: #669181
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:35 -0400
73 debhelper (9.20120418) unstable; urgency=low
75 * cmake: Only pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS in v9.
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:39 -0400
79 debhelper (9.20120417) unstable; urgency=low
81 * cmake: Pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS. Closes: #668813
82 Thanks, Simon Ruderich for the patch and for verifying no affected
83 package is broken by this change.
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:29 -0400
87 debhelper (9.20120410) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891
91 * Conflict with too old automake for AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. Closes: #666901
92 * dh_md5sums: Don't skip DEBIAN directories other than the control files
96 * dh_installinit: rework upstart handling to comply with new policy
97 proposal; packages will ship both an init script and an upstart job,
98 instead of just an upstart job and a symlink to a compat wrapper.
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:51:15 -0400
103 debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low
105 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
106 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
107 Added to interface documentation.
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400
112 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
114 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
118 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
120 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
121 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
122 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
123 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
125 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
126 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
127 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
128 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
129 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
134 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
136 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
137 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
138 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
139 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
140 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
141 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
142 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
146 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
148 * Typo. Closes: #653006
149 * Typo. Closes: #653339
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
153 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
156 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
157 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
158 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
159 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
160 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
164 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
167 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
168 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
169 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
170 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
171 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
172 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
173 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
177 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
183 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
185 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
186 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
187 may need to disable this.
188 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
189 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
190 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
191 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
195 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
197 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
198 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
199 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
203 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
205 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
206 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
207 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
209 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
210 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
211 to dh. Closes: #643069
212 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
213 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
217 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
219 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
220 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
221 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
222 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
223 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
225 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
226 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
227 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
229 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
230 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
231 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
232 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
233 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
234 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
235 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
236 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
237 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
238 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
239 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
240 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
241 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
242 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
243 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
247 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
249 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
254 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
256 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
257 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
259 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
265 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
267 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
268 Use override targets instead.
269 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
270 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
271 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
272 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
273 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
274 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
275 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
276 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
277 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
278 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
283 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
285 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
286 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
290 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
296 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
298 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
299 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
300 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
301 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
302 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
303 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
304 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
308 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
310 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
311 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
312 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
313 the targets. Closes: #629139
314 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
315 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
316 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
317 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
318 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
319 are already set to other values will not be changed.
321 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
322 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
323 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
324 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
325 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
330 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
332 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
336 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
339 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
340 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
344 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
346 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
347 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
348 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
349 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
350 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
351 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
352 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
353 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
358 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
361 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
362 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
363 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
365 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
366 changes may be added to that mode.
367 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
368 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
369 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
370 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
371 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
372 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
373 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
374 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
375 * Removed old example rules files.
376 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
380 * update french translation.
381 * Fix french misspelling.
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
385 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
387 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
388 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
392 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
395 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
396 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
397 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
398 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
399 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
400 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
401 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
405 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
408 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
409 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
410 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
411 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
412 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
413 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
415 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
416 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
417 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
418 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
419 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
420 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
421 (Thanks, David Prévot)
422 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
423 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
424 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
425 target fails. Closes: #601037
426 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
428 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
429 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
430 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
431 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
432 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
434 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
435 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
437 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
438 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
439 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
441 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
443 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
446 * update french translation.
447 * Fix french misspelling.
448 * French translation update after massive man page typography
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
452 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
455 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
458 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
462 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
464 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
468 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
470 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
471 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
472 introduced by the fix to #527990.
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
476 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
478 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
479 changes are planned for that mode.
480 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
481 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
482 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
483 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
484 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
485 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
486 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
487 (genesis) still uses them.
488 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
489 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
490 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
491 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
492 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
493 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
494 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
495 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
496 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
497 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
498 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
499 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
500 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
501 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
502 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
503 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
504 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
505 commands. (See #570039)
506 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
508 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
513 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
515 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
517 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
518 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
519 in control file or debhelper config files.
520 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
524 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
527 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
528 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
532 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
535 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
539 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
541 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
542 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
543 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
547 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
549 * Updated French translation.
550 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
551 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
552 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
553 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
555 * Typo. Closes: #571968
556 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
557 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
558 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
559 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
560 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
561 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
562 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
563 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
564 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
566 * dh: Improve documentation.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
570 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
572 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
573 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
574 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
578 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
580 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
581 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
585 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
588 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
592 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
594 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
595 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
596 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
597 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
598 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
599 options that they do not support.
600 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
601 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
602 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
603 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
604 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
605 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
610 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
614 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
615 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
616 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
617 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
618 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
619 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
620 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
621 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
622 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
626 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
629 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
630 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
631 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
632 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
636 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Typo. Closes: #558654
639 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
640 installed. Closes: #558782
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
644 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
647 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
648 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
649 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
650 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
651 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
655 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
657 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
658 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
659 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
660 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
664 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
667 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
668 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
672 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
674 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
678 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
680 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
681 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
682 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
683 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
684 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
685 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
686 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
687 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
688 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
689 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
690 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
691 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
692 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
693 time soon.) Closes: #554509
694 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
696 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
697 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
698 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
699 document id. Closes: #555677
700 * Typo. Closes: #555659
701 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
702 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
703 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
704 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
706 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
707 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
708 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
713 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
716 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
717 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
718 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
719 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
720 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
721 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
722 translation (#494300 part 2)
725 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
727 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
728 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
729 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
730 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
731 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
735 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
738 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
739 (It was only run once due to logging.)
740 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
741 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
742 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
743 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
744 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
745 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
746 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
747 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
748 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
749 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
753 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
756 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
757 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
760 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
761 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
765 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
768 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
769 flag with arch all/any packages.
770 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
771 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
772 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
773 situation. Closes: #540794
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
777 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
781 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
782 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
783 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
784 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
785 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
788 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
789 the default. Closes: #538201
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
794 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
796 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
798 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
799 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
800 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
801 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
802 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
804 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
805 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
806 * Above Closes: #491117
807 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
812 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
818 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
819 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
820 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
824 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
827 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
828 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
829 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
830 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
831 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
836 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
839 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
840 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
844 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
846 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
850 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
852 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
853 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
855 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
856 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
857 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
861 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
863 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
864 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
868 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
870 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
874 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
876 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
877 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
878 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
883 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
885 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
889 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
892 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
893 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
894 created by using `python' first during build and install.
896 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
901 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
903 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
907 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
909 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
910 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
914 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
916 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
920 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
922 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
926 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
928 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
929 contributed by Modestas Vainius
930 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
931 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
932 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
933 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
934 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
935 that support it. Closes: #480577
936 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
937 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
938 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
940 - Adds support for cmake.
941 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
942 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
944 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
946 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
947 that use them. The options are:
948 --sourcedir, --destdir
949 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
950 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
951 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
952 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
953 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
957 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
963 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
966 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
967 default. Closes: #537140
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
971 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
974 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
975 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
979 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
982 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
986 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
988 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
989 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
993 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
995 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
996 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
998 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
999 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
1000 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
1004 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
1007 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
1008 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
1009 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
1013 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
1016 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
1017 warning or deprecation message.
1018 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
1019 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
1020 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
1021 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
1022 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
1023 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
1024 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
1025 Closes: #534639, #357434
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
1029 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
1035 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
1038 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
1039 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
1040 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
1041 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
1043 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
1044 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
1045 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
1049 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
1055 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
1062 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
1065 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
1069 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
1073 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
1074 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
1076 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
1077 file support. Closes: #494914
1078 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
1082 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
1085 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
1086 parameters. Closes: #527256
1087 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
1088 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
1089 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
1093 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
1096 (Patch from #459548)
1097 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
1098 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
1099 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1103 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1106 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1107 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1108 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1112 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1115 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1116 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1118 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1119 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1120 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1124 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1128 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1132 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1135 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1136 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1137 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1138 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1143 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1149 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1152 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1153 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1154 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1155 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1156 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1158 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1159 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1160 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1161 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1162 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1163 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1167 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1170 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1171 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1172 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1173 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1174 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1176 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1180 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1182 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1186 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1188 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1189 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1190 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1191 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1192 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1193 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1194 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1195 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1196 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1197 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1198 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1202 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1204 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1205 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1207 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1208 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1209 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1210 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1212 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1213 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1217 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1219 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1220 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1221 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1222 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1223 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1224 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1225 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1227 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1228 that uses them. Affected options are:
1229 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1230 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1231 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1232 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1233 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1234 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1235 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1236 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1237 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1238 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1239 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1240 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1244 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1251 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1257 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1260 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1262 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1263 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1264 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1265 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1266 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1267 than the old method.
1268 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1270 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1271 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1272 rules (see bug #509756).
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1276 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1282 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1283 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1284 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1285 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1289 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1292 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1293 empty files. Closes: #490937
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1297 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1303 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1310 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1313 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1314 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1315 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1316 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1321 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1323 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1324 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1325 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1326 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1330 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1333 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1334 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1335 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1336 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1337 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1341 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1348 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1351 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1352 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1353 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1354 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1355 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1356 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1357 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1358 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1359 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1363 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1366 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1367 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1368 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1369 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1371 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1372 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1373 breaking backwards compatibility.
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1377 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1380 message in perl 5.10.
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1384 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1390 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1393 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1397 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1400 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1404 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1407 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1408 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1409 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1410 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1411 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1412 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1413 logging by dh_listpackages.
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1417 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1420 run and there are no packages of that type.
1421 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1422 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1423 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1424 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1426 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1427 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1431 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1434 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1435 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1439 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1442 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1443 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1445 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1446 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1447 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1448 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1449 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1450 planned but not yet implemented.)
1451 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1452 if the Makefile has such a target.
1453 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1454 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1455 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1456 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1457 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1458 but not yet implemented.)
1459 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1460 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1461 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1462 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1463 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1465 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1467 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1468 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1470 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1471 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1472 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1477 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1480 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1481 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1485 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1487 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1488 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1489 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1493 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1499 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1505 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1508 just those installed by the program.
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1512 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1515 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1516 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1520 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1523 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1524 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1525 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1526 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1530 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1533 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1534 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1538 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1541 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1542 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1546 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1549 with policy. Closes: #461392
1550 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1551 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1552 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1553 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1554 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1558 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1561 Closes: #460340, #460351
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1565 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1568 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1569 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1570 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1571 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1575 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1578 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1579 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1580 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1581 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1582 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1583 package build directory won't work.
1584 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1585 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1586 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1587 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1588 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1589 mode. Closes: #459426
1590 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1595 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1598 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1602 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1606 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1607 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1608 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1609 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1610 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1611 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1615 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1618 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1619 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1620 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1621 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1625 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1628 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1629 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1630 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1631 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1632 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1636 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1639 debian/package.triggers files.
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1643 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1646 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1650 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1653 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1654 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1655 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1656 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1661 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1664 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1668 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1671 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1672 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1674 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1679 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1683 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1684 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1685 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1689 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1696 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1703 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1706 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1708 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1709 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1710 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1712 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1713 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1714 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1718 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1721 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1722 * Update urls to web page.
1723 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1724 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1725 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1726 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1730 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1733 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1734 - typo in alternatives call
1735 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1737 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1738 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1742 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1745 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1750 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1756 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1762 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1765 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1767 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1768 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1769 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1770 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1771 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1772 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1773 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1774 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1775 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1776 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1777 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1781 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1784 package install. Closes: #415717
1785 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1786 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1787 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1788 script and then remove the python files.
1789 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1790 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1791 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1792 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1793 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1794 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1795 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1796 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1797 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1798 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1799 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1800 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1801 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1805 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * Correct typo in french translation
1811 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1812 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1814 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1816 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1817 Closes: #406921, #381940
1818 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1820 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1821 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1822 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1823 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1824 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1825 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1826 specified). Closes: #381851
1827 * Misc minor changes.
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1831 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1838 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1839 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1843 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1849 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1850 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1853 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1854 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1856 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1857 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1858 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1859 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1863 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1866 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1869 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1873 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1879 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1885 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1886 a difficult situation.
1887 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1888 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1889 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1890 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1891 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1892 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1893 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1894 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1895 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1896 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1900 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Non-maintainer upload.
1903 * Update of dh_python
1904 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1905 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1907 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1908 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1909 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1910 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1911 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1913 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1915 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Non-maintainer upload.
1918 * Update of dh_python
1919 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1920 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1921 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1922 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1923 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1924 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1925 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1926 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1927 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1928 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1930 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1931 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1932 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1933 the not too-distant future).
1934 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1935 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1936 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1937 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1938 thus made the build fail.
1940 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1942 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Non-maintainer upload.
1945 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1947 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1949 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1952 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1953 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1954 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1955 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1956 package. Closes: #301424
1957 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1958 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1959 fonts). Closes: #372686
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1963 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1969 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1970 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1971 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1972 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1973 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1974 above, but already depends on that.
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1978 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1981 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1982 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1983 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1984 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1985 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1989 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1995 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
2001 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
2002 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
2006 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
2009 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
2013 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
2017 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
2018 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
2019 new version (0.24.1).
2020 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
2021 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
2024 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
2025 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
2026 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
2027 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
2028 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
2029 new directory on their own.
2030 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
2031 * Fix broken directory removal code.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
2035 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
2038 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
2039 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
2040 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
2041 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
2045 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
2048 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
2049 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
2050 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
2051 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
2052 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
2056 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
2062 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Typo. Closes: #358904
2066 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
2067 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
2071 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2072 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
2076 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
2078 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
2079 || exit 0 instead of the intended
2081 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
2082 ignored. Closes: #337664
2084 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
2089 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
2095 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
2100 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
2101 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2102 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2103 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2104 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2105 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2106 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2110 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2113 version. Closes: #350607
2114 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2115 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2116 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2117 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2121 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2124 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2125 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2126 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2130 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2137 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2143 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2146 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2150 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2153 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2154 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2155 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2156 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2157 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2158 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2162 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2165 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2166 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2171 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2174 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2178 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2181 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2185 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2188 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2189 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2190 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2191 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2192 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2193 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2197 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2201 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2202 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2203 link. Closes: #346405
2204 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2206 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2207 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2208 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2209 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2210 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2211 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2212 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2216 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2223 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2229 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2232 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2236 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2239 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2244 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2248 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2249 installed. Closes: #342033
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2253 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2256 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2257 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2258 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2263 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2269 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2275 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2279 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2280 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2281 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2285 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2288 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2293 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2300 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2306 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2309 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2310 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2311 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2312 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2313 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2314 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2315 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2317 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2321 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2324 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2325 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2329 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2332 in standard man dirs.
2333 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2337 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2343 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2346 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2351 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2358 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2365 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2368 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2369 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2373 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2376 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2377 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2378 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2380 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2382 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2388 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2394 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2397 mode. Closes: #324161
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2401 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2404 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2405 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2406 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2407 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2412 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2415 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2416 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2417 is necesary for sanity.
2418 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2419 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2424 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2426 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2427 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2431 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2434 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2438 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2444 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2447 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2448 released, so use at your own risk.
2449 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2450 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2452 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2453 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2454 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2455 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2456 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2457 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2458 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2459 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2460 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2461 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2462 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2463 including twice per config file line now..
2464 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2465 and simplfy the rules file.
2466 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2467 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2468 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2470 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2471 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2475 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2478 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2482 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2485 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2489 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2492 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2496 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2499 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2500 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2501 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2502 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2503 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2504 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2508 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2511 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2512 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2513 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2518 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2521 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2522 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2527 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2530 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2531 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2532 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2537 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2540 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2541 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2542 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2546 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2552 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2559 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2562 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2563 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2564 unknown. Closes: #282924
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2568 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2575 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * Spanish man page updates.
2578 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2583 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2589 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2592 * dh_desktop: reindent
2593 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2594 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2598 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2604 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2606 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2610 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2612 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2616 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2619 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2620 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2624 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2630 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2636 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2643 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2646 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2650 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2653 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2654 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2655 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2656 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2657 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2658 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2660 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2661 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2662 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2663 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2664 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2665 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2666 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2667 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2668 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2669 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2670 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2671 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2672 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2673 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2674 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2675 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2679 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2686 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2689 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2693 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2696 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2700 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2703 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2707 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2710 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2714 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2720 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2726 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2732 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2735 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2736 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2737 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2741 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2744 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2748 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2751 but occasionally right and necessary.
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2755 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2758 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2759 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2760 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2761 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2762 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2766 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2769 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2771 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2772 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2773 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2774 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2775 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2776 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2777 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2778 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2779 postinst scripts for udebs.
2780 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2784 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2787 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2789 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2790 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2794 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2800 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2807 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2814 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2817 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2821 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2824 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2828 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2831 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2834 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2835 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2839 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2845 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2848 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2852 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2855 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2856 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2857 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2859 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2861 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2862 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2863 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2867 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2870 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2875 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2878 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2879 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2880 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2885 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2891 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2897 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2900 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2901 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2902 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2903 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2904 associated -dbg packages.
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2908 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2911 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2915 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2918 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2922 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2925 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2929 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2932 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2937 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2940 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2944 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2947 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2952 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2955 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2959 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2963 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2964 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2965 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2966 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2967 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2968 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2969 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2970 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2971 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2972 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2976 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2979 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2984 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2987 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2988 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2992 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2995 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2996 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
3001 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
3004 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
3008 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
3011 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
3015 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
3018 out section number. Closes: #204731
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
3022 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
3029 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
3035 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
3041 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * Typo, Closes: #203907
3044 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
3045 removal. Closes: #204286
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
3049 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
3052 renaming. Closes: #203548
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
3056 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
3059 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
3060 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
3064 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
3070 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
3076 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
3082 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
3085 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
3086 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
3087 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
3091 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
3094 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
3095 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
3099 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3105 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3112 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3115 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3120 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3123 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3127 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3130 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3132 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3133 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3137 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3140 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3145 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3148 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3152 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3158 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3160 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3164 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3167 it break hard links (see #188663).
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3171 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3174 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3178 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3184 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3188 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3189 debconf-mergetemplates
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3193 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3196 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3200 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3203 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3207 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3210 * Update debhelper(1).
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3214 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3217 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3218 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3219 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3220 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3221 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3225 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3228 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3229 the shell. Closes: #178524
3230 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3234 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3237 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3241 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3244 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3248 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3251 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3252 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3253 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3254 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3259 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3262 files from installation.
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3266 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3269 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3270 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3274 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3277 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3281 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3284 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3288 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3294 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3300 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3304 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3305 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3307 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3311 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3314 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3315 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3316 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3317 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3321 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3324 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3328 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3331 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3332 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3336 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3340 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3345 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3347 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3351 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3355 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3356 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3357 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3362 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3365 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3366 practice. Closes: #163303
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3370 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3376 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3383 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3386 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3388 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3389 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3390 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3391 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3392 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3396 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3399 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3404 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3410 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3417 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3420 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3425 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3431 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3437 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3443 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3450 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3453 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3454 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3455 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3456 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3461 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3467 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3474 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3477 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3478 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3482 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3485 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3486 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3487 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3488 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3489 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3493 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3496 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3498 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3503 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3506 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3510 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3513 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3514 right thing. Closes: #150644
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3518 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * Stupid, evil typo.
3521 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3525 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3532 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3535 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3536 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3541 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3547 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3550 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3554 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3557 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3558 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3563 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3566 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3570 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3576 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3579 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3580 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3584 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3590 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * Removing perl warning message.
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3596 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3599 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3600 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3601 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3602 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3603 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3604 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3605 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3606 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3610 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3616 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3623 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3626 debconf-mergetemplate.
3627 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3628 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3632 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3635 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3636 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3637 dh_install, which ...
3638 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3639 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3640 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3641 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3642 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3643 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3644 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3645 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3646 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3647 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3648 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3649 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3650 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3651 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3652 other minor changes.
3653 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3654 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3655 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3656 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3657 course there's -X ..)
3658 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3659 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3660 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3662 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3663 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3664 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3665 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3666 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3671 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3677 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3680 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3684 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3690 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3696 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3702 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3708 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3711 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3712 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3713 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3714 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3716 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3717 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3721 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3727 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3730 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3734 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3737 upset. Closes: #131322
3739 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3741 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3744 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3745 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3746 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3747 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3748 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3749 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3750 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3751 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3752 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3753 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3754 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3755 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3756 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3757 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3758 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3760 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3764 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3767 - Better indenting of generated code.
3768 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3772 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3776 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3777 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3778 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3779 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3780 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3781 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3782 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3786 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3789 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3793 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3796 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3797 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3798 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3799 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3800 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3801 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3802 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3803 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3804 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3805 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3806 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3807 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3808 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3809 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3810 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3815 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3821 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3824 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3825 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3829 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3832 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3833 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3837 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3843 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3846 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3847 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3848 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3849 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3850 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3855 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3861 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3863 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3864 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3868 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3871 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3876 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3878 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3882 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3885 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3889 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3895 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3899 Also some indentation fixes.
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3903 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3906 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3907 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3908 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3909 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3910 Closes: #106514, #85520
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3914 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3920 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3926 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3932 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3938 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3944 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3947 change it in debhelper v4..
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3951 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3953 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3957 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3960 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3964 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3967 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3971 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3977 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3980 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3981 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3982 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3983 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3984 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3985 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3986 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3987 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3988 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3989 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3990 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3991 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3995 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3997 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3998 look just like shared libs, but are not.
4000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
4002 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4004 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
4009 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
4012 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
4013 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
4014 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
4015 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
4016 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
4017 program those options go to. So, for example,
4018 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
4019 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
4020 something complex. Closes: #89311
4021 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
4025 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
4028 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
4029 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
4030 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
4034 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
4037 through loop. Closes: #98598
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
4041 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * Missing semi-colon.
4044 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
4045 this (dh_* should be called, really).
4047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
4049 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4051 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
4052 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
4053 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
4054 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
4058 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4060 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
4061 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
4062 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
4066 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
4069 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
4073 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
4076 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
4077 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
4081 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
4084 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
4085 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
4086 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
4090 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
4093 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
4094 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
4095 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
4099 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4101 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4102 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4106 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4112 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4114 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4118 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4120 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4124 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4130 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4133 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4137 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4140 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4141 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4142 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4143 followed. Closes: #85483
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4147 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4149 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4150 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4151 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4155 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4158 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4159 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4160 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4161 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4162 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4163 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4164 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4165 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4166 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4167 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4168 Closes: #88464, #77743
4169 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4170 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4171 us to deal with that gracefully.
4172 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4174 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4175 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4176 a while, Closes: #51225
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4180 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4186 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4189 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4193 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4197 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4202 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4205 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4206 don't make packlist files.
4207 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4208 debhelper coding standards.
4209 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4210 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4214 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4216 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4217 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4221 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4223 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4224 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4225 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4226 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4227 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4228 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4229 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4230 but is mildly deprecated.
4231 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4232 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4233 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4234 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4235 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4236 switching to statoverrides..
4237 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4238 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4239 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4240 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4241 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4242 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4244 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4245 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4246 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4247 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4248 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4249 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4250 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4251 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4252 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4254 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4255 variable names, pod man pages).
4256 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4257 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4258 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4259 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4260 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4261 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4262 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4266 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4272 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4279 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4281 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4282 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4286 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4288 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4289 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4290 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4294 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4296 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4297 they were previously ignored.
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4301 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4303 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4304 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4308 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4310 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4311 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4312 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4316 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4318 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4322 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4324 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4325 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4329 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4331 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4332 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4333 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4334 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4335 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4336 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4337 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4338 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4339 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4340 it is an obsolete program.
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4344 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4346 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4350 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4354 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4356 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4360 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4362 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4364 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4366 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4370 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4376 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * typo: Closes, #78567
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4382 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4384 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4388 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4390 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4394 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4397 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4398 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4399 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4400 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4401 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4405 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4407 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4408 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4413 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4415 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4416 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4417 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4418 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4419 backwards-compatibility.
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4423 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4426 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4427 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4428 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4429 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4430 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4431 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4433 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4434 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4435 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4437 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4439 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4440 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4441 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4442 should now be raised to severity important..
4443 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4444 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4448 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4451 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4456 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4462 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4468 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4474 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4481 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4484 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4485 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4486 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4487 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4491 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4497 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4499 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4500 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4501 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4502 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4503 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4504 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4505 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4510 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4513 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4517 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4519 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4523 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4525 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4526 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4531 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4533 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4534 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4535 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4536 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4537 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4541 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4545 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4548 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4551 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4552 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4555 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4557 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4558 the TODO entry about it.
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4562 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4569 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4572 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4573 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4577 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4579 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4580 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4581 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4582 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4583 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4587 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4593 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4600 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4603 (this appears to be logal).
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4607 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4610 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4611 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4612 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4613 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4617 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4623 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4626 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4627 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4628 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4629 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4633 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4639 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4641 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4642 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4646 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4653 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4656 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4657 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4658 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4663 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4670 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4676 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4679 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4680 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4681 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4682 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4683 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4684 notice until v2 is complete.
4685 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
4686 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4687 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4688 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4689 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4690 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4692 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4693 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4694 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4695 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4699 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4701 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4705 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4712 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4714 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4715 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4719 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4721 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4726 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4729 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4730 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4731 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4732 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4737 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4740 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4741 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4742 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4747 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4749 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4750 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4751 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4755 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4757 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4758 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4762 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4765 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4769 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4776 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4779 depend on the build and install targets.
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4783 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4786 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4790 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4797 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4803 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4809 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4811 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4812 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4813 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4814 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4815 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4816 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4817 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4819 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4820 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4821 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4822 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4823 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4824 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4825 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4829 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4835 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4841 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4843 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4844 right place. Closes: #55065
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4848 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4855 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4858 * Copyright date updates.
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4862 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4865 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4870 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4876 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4883 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4885 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4889 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4895 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4901 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4904 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4905 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4906 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4907 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4908 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4909 bits until all files have been registered.
4911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4913 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4915 * dh_installmanpages:
4916 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4917 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4918 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4919 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4920 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4921 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4922 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4923 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4924 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4925 otherwise change the result at all.
4927 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4928 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4929 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4930 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4931 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4936 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4942 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4944 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4945 act on files that don't exist.
4946 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4947 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4948 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4950 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4951 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4952 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4953 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4957 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4963 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4969 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4971 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4972 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4976 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4979 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4981 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4982 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4983 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4987 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4990 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4991 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4992 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4993 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4994 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4995 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4996 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4998 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
5000 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
5004 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5006 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
5009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
5011 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5013 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
5015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
5017 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5019 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
5023 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
5026 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
5030 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5032 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
5036 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
5042 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
5045 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
5046 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
5047 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
5048 I made some changes, though:
5049 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
5050 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
5051 that is a clear violation of policy.
5052 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
5053 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
5054 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
5055 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
5056 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
5057 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
5058 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
5059 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
5060 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
5062 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
5066 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5068 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
5072 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
5075 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
5079 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
5082 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
5083 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
5088 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
5094 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
5101 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5104 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5105 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5106 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5107 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5108 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5109 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5110 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5114 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5116 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5120 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5122 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5124 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5125 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5129 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5131 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5135 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5137 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5138 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5142 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5144 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5145 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5146 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5150 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5152 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5157 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5161 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5165 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5167 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5168 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5169 for the dependancies to be generated.
5171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5173 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5175 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5176 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5180 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5182 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5183 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5184 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5185 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5190 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5193 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5194 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5198 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5200 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5204 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5206 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5210 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5212 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5213 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5217 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5223 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5226 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5227 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5228 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5229 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5230 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5231 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5232 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5233 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5234 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5235 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5236 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5237 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5241 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5243 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5244 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5245 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5247 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5248 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5249 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5250 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5251 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5252 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5254 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5255 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5259 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5261 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5262 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5266 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5273 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5276 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5281 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5283 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5284 for building debhelper.
5285 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5289 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5291 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5296 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5299 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5303 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5305 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5306 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5307 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5308 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5309 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5310 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5311 it's always available.
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5315 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5317 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5318 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5319 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5320 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5324 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5326 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5327 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5328 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5332 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5334 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5338 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5340 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5341 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5345 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5351 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5354 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5355 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5356 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5360 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5362 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5363 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5368 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5370 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5371 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5372 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5374 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5375 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5379 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5385 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5387 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5391 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5394 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5398 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5400 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5401 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5402 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5404 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5408 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5410 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5411 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5412 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5413 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5417 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5419 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5420 things if CDPATH is set.
5422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5424 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5426 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5430 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5432 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5433 seems to make sense for the transition.
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5437 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5440 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5445 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5447 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5448 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5449 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5453 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5455 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5456 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5460 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5462 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5463 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5464 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5465 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5466 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5470 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5472 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5476 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5479 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5480 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5481 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5482 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5483 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5484 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5485 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5486 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5487 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5488 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
5491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5493 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5495 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5496 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5497 * README: mention doc/v2
5498 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5499 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5503 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5505 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5506 be using this script RSN.
5508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5510 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5512 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5513 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5514 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5515 more than 1 init script.
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5519 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5522 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5526 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * Changed perl version detection.
5529 * Changed call to find.
5531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5533 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5535 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5536 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5538 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5543 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5545 * Really include dh_installpam.
5547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5549 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5551 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5552 * Wrote man page for same.
5554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5556 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5558 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5559 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5560 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5565 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5567 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5572 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5574 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5575 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5576 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5577 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5578 x bit was being set!
5580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5582 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5584 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5585 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5586 well. (Closes: 38900)
5588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5590 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5592 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5593 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5594 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5598 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5604 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5611 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5613 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5617 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5619 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5620 help from Julian Gilbey.
5621 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5622 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5623 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5624 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5625 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5626 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5627 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5632 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5634 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5638 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5640 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5645 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5651 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5657 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5660 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5664 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5667 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5671 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5674 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5678 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5684 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5686 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5687 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5691 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5693 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5697 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5699 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5703 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5705 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5706 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5707 may be deleted. (#35845)
5709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5711 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5713 * Various man page enhancements.
5714 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5719 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5721 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5722 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5723 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5727 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5729 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5730 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5731 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5732 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5734 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5735 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5740 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5746 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5748 * Another very minor typo fix.
5750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5752 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5754 * Very minor typo fix.
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5758 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5761 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5762 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5766 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5768 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5772 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5774 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5775 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5776 variables properly (#34850).
5778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5780 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5782 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5786 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5788 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5789 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5790 (automatically generated by build process).
5792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5794 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5796 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5800 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5802 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5803 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5804 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5806 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5810 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5812 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5813 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5817 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5819 * README: minor typo fix.
5821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5823 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5825 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5826 leave it at that. :-)
5828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5830 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5832 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5836 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5838 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5842 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5844 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5845 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5846 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5847 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5851 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5853 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5854 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5858 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5860 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5861 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5865 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5867 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5868 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5869 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5870 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5871 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5875 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5877 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5878 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5879 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5880 Craig Small for spotting this.
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5884 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5886 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5887 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5888 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5892 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5894 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5898 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5900 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5901 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5905 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5907 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5908 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5909 working on the last version of debhelper.
5911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5913 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5915 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5916 being made. (#23255)
5918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5920 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5922 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5926 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5928 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5929 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5933 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5935 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5936 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5937 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5938 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5939 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5943 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5945 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5946 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5947 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5948 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5949 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5951 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5952 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5954 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5959 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5961 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5965 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5967 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5971 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5973 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5974 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5975 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5976 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5977 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5978 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5979 suidregister actually supports it.
5980 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5981 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5985 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5987 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5992 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5994 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5995 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5996 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5997 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5998 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5999 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
6000 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
6001 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
6003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
6005 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
6007 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
6008 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
6010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
6012 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
6014 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
6015 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
6016 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
6017 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
6018 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
6020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
6022 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
6024 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
6025 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
6027 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
6028 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
6029 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
6030 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
6031 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
6032 effect, either. (#30118)
6034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
6036 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
6038 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
6040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
6042 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
6044 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
6045 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
6046 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
6048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
6050 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
6052 * Spelling and typo fixes.
6054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
6056 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
6058 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
6059 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
6060 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
6061 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
6062 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
6064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
6066 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
6068 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
6069 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
6070 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
6072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
6074 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
6076 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
6078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
6080 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
6082 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
6083 packages, painlessly.
6085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
6087 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
6089 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
6091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
6093 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
6095 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
6097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
6099 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
6101 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6105 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6107 * The perl conversion is complete.
6109 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6111 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6112 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6113 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6118 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6120 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6121 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6122 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6123 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6127 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6129 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6130 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6132 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6134 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6135 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6139 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6141 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6142 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6143 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6147 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6149 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6153 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6155 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6156 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6157 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6158 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6159 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6160 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6164 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6166 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6167 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6168 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6169 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6170 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6174 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6176 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6177 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6181 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6183 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6184 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6185 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6186 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6187 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6188 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6189 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6190 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6191 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6195 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6197 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6201 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6203 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6204 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6205 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6206 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6211 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6213 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6214 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6218 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6220 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6221 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6225 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6227 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6228 sections of shared libraries.
6229 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6230 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6231 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6232 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6233 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6234 things you don't want them to.
6235 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6236 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6240 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6242 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6243 shared libraries. (#26414)
6245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6247 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6249 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6250 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6251 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6252 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6256 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6258 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6260 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6262 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6263 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6264 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6265 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6266 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6270 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6272 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6273 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6277 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6279 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6280 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6281 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6286 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6288 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6289 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6293 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6295 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6296 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6297 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6298 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6299 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6300 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6302 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6303 remove debian/files properly.
6304 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6305 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6306 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6307 * Removed bogus menu file.
6309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6311 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6313 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6314 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6318 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6320 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6321 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6322 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6323 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6324 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6325 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6326 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6330 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6332 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6333 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6334 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6335 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6336 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6340 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6342 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6347 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6349 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6350 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6351 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6353 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6354 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6355 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6356 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6357 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6358 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6362 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6364 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6365 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6366 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6367 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6368 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6369 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6370 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6371 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6372 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6373 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6374 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6375 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6376 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6377 passed any switches.
6378 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6382 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6384 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6385 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6386 at all for a long while.
6387 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6388 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6389 large chunks in the process.
6390 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6391 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6392 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6397 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6399 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6400 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6402 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6407 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6409 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6410 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6411 that don't always have the same files in them.
6412 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6413 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6414 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6418 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6420 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6422 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6423 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6424 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6425 updating 27 man pages.
6426 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6427 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6428 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6429 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6430 programs act on. (#25247)
6432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6434 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6438 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6439 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6440 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6441 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6442 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6443 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6448 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6450 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6455 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6457 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6462 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6464 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6465 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6469 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6471 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6475 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6477 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6478 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6479 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6480 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6481 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6482 package by accident.
6483 * Is version 1.0 next?
6485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6487 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6489 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6490 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6491 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6495 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6497 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6498 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6499 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6500 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6501 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6502 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6504 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6509 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6511 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6512 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6513 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6517 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6519 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6520 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6524 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6526 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6527 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6528 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6533 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6535 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6539 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6541 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6542 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6543 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6548 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6550 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6554 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6556 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6557 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6558 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6559 past week. Thanks, guys!
6561 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6562 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6563 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6564 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6565 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6566 would do in the same situation.
6567 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6568 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6570 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6572 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6573 permissions changed.
6574 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6575 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6576 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6577 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6578 files are treated identically.
6579 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6580 * Minor man page fixes.
6581 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6582 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6583 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6587 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6589 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6590 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6591 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6592 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6593 use -X multiple times, too.
6594 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6595 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6599 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6601 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6602 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6603 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6607 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6609 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6610 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6614 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6616 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6617 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6618 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6619 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6620 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6621 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6622 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6623 shape if you're starting a new package.
6625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6627 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6629 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6630 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6634 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6636 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6637 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6638 because of missing symlinks.
6640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6642 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6644 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6648 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6650 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6651 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6652 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6653 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6654 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6655 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6657 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6658 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6662 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6664 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6665 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6666 to be changed after the fact :-)
6667 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6671 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6673 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6674 no version string after the -V.
6676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6678 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6680 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6681 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6686 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6688 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6689 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6693 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6695 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6696 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6697 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6698 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6699 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6700 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6701 I always welcome corrections!
6703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6705 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6707 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6711 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6713 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6714 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6715 * Documented this new switch.
6717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6719 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6721 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6722 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6723 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6724 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6725 no packages use the old behavior.
6727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6729 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6731 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6732 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6733 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6737 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6739 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6740 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6744 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6746 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6750 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6752 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6753 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6757 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6759 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6760 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6761 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6762 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6766 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6768 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6772 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6774 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6775 into the source package by accident.
6777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6779 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6781 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6782 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6783 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6784 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6785 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6786 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6787 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6792 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6794 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6796 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6797 inspired to implement some of it.
6798 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6802 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6804 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6805 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6809 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6811 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6812 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6813 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6817 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6819 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6820 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6821 have done.) (#17598)
6823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6825 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6827 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6831 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6833 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6837 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6839 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6840 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6844 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6846 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6847 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6848 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6852 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6854 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6855 argument processor in perl.
6856 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6857 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6858 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6859 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6863 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6865 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6866 type directories. (#16933)
6867 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6868 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6869 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6870 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6871 are supported. (#16935)
6872 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6877 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6879 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6880 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6884 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6886 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6888 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6889 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6890 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6891 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6892 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6893 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6897 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6899 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6900 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6901 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6903 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6904 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6905 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6906 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6907 a given package, or -i or -a.
6908 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6909 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6910 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6911 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6912 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6913 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6914 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6915 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6916 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6918 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6919 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6920 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6924 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6926 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6927 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6928 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6933 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6935 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6936 does not have a section.
6938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6940 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6942 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6943 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6944 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6945 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6949 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6951 * Fixed typo #16215.
6953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6955 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6957 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6958 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6959 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6960 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6961 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6962 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6967 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6969 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6970 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6971 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6972 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6977 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6979 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6983 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6985 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6989 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6991 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6992 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6993 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6994 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6995 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6996 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6997 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
7001 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
7003 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
7005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
7007 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
7009 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
7010 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
7012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
7014 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
7016 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
7017 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
7018 the dh_* programs (#15497).
7019 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
7021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
7023 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
7025 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
7026 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
7028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
7030 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
7032 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
7034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
7036 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
7038 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
7039 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
7041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
7043 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
7045 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
7046 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
7048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
7050 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
7052 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
7054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
7056 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
7058 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
7059 postinst, postrm, etc.
7061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
7063 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
7065 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
7067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
7069 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
7071 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
7072 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
7073 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
7074 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
7075 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
7076 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
7078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
7080 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
7082 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
7083 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
7084 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
7086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
7088 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
7090 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
7091 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
7093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
7095 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
7097 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
7098 installing package files into.
7099 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7104 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7106 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7108 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7112 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7114 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7118 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7120 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7121 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7125 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7127 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7128 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7129 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7130 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7131 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7135 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7137 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7138 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7139 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7140 multiple binary packages.
7141 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7142 should rebuild them with this version.
7143 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7147 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7149 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7150 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7154 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7156 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7157 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7161 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7163 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7164 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7165 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7166 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7167 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7168 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7169 debian/README.debian.
7170 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7171 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7172 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7173 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7174 in a few situations.)
7176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7178 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7180 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7184 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7186 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7190 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7192 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7193 * Fixed several man pages.
7195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7197 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7199 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7200 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7201 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7205 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7207 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7208 is ready for general use.
7209 * Added man pages for all commands.
7210 * Multiple binary package support.
7211 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7212 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7213 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7215 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7216 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7217 auto-installed as parameters.
7218 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7220 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7223 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7224 the package build directory it is to act on.
7225 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7226 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7227 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7231 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7233 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7234 ready to replace debstd.
7236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400