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
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:51:07 -0600
10 debhelper (9.20120608) unstable; urgency=low
12 * dh: When there's an -indep override target without -arch, or vice versa,
13 avoid acting on packages covered by the override target when running
14 the command for packages not covered by it. Closes: #676462
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:15:48 -0400
18 debhelper (9.20120528) unstable; urgency=low
20 * dh_installcatalogs: Turn /etc/sgml/$package.cat into conffiles
21 and introduce dependency on trigger-based sgml-base. Closes: #477751
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 May 2012 13:40:26 -0400
26 debhelper (9.20120523) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #673629 Thanks, Omar Campagne
29 * Set Multi-Arch: foreign. Closes: #674193
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 May 2012 14:55:48 -0400
33 debhelper (9.20120518) unstable; urgency=low
35 * Fix versioned dependency on dpkg for xz options. Closes: #672895
36 * dh_link: Doc improvement. Closes: #672988
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 May 2012 11:05:03 -0400
40 debhelper (9.20120513) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Improve -v logging. Closes: #672448
43 * dh_builddeb: Build udebs with xz compression, level 1, extreme strategy.
44 This has been chosen to not need any more memory or cpu when uncompressing,
45 while yeilding the best compressions for udebs. Thanks, Philipp Kern.
46 * Depend on a new enough dpkg for above features. Backporters will need
47 to revert these changes.
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 May 2012 13:09:42 -0400
51 debhelper (9.20120509) unstable; urgency=low
53 * dh_installman: Recognize sections from mdoc .Dt entries. Closes: #670210
55 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #671598
56 * dh_install: Reorder documentation for clarity. Closes: #672109
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 May 2012 12:59:15 -0400
60 debhelper (9.20120419) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Fix compat level checking for cmake. Closes: #669181
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:35 -0400
66 debhelper (9.20120418) unstable; urgency=low
68 * cmake: Only pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS in v9.
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:39 -0400
72 debhelper (9.20120417) unstable; urgency=low
74 * cmake: Pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS. Closes: #668813
75 Thanks, Simon Ruderich for the patch and for verifying no affected
76 package is broken by this change.
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:29 -0400
80 debhelper (9.20120410) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891
84 * Conflict with too old automake for AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. Closes: #666901
85 * dh_md5sums: Don't skip DEBIAN directories other than the control files
89 * dh_installinit: rework upstart handling to comply with new policy
90 proposal; packages will ship both an init script and an upstart job,
91 instead of just an upstart job and a symlink to a compat wrapper.
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:51:15 -0400
96 debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
99 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
100 Added to interface documentation.
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400
105 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
107 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
111 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
113 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
114 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
115 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
116 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
118 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
119 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
120 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
121 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
122 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
127 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
129 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
130 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
131 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
132 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
133 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
134 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
135 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
139 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
141 * Typo. Closes: #653006
142 * Typo. Closes: #653339
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
146 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
148 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
149 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
150 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
151 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
152 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
153 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
157 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
159 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
160 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
161 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
162 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
163 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
164 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
165 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
166 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
170 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
172 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
176 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
178 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
179 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
180 may need to disable this.
181 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
182 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
183 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
184 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
188 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
191 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
192 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
196 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
198 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
199 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
200 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
202 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
203 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
204 to dh. Closes: #643069
205 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
206 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
210 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
212 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
213 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
214 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
215 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
216 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
218 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
219 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
220 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
222 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
223 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
224 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
225 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
226 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
227 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
228 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
229 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
230 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
231 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
232 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
233 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
234 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
235 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
236 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
240 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
242 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
247 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
249 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
250 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
252 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
258 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
260 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
261 Use override targets instead.
262 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
263 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
264 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
265 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
266 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
267 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
268 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
269 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
270 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
271 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
276 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
279 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
283 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
285 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
289 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
291 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
292 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
293 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
294 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
295 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
296 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
297 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
301 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
303 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
304 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
305 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
306 the targets. Closes: #629139
307 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
308 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
309 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
310 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
311 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
312 are already set to other values will not be changed.
314 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
315 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
316 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
317 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
318 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
323 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
325 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
329 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
331 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
332 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
333 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
337 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
339 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
340 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
341 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
342 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
343 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
344 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
345 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
346 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
351 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
355 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
356 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
358 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
359 changes may be added to that mode.
360 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
361 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
362 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
363 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
364 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
365 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
366 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
367 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
368 * Removed old example rules files.
369 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
373 * update french translation.
374 * Fix french misspelling.
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
378 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
380 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
381 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
385 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
388 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
389 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
390 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
391 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
392 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
393 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
394 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
398 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
401 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
402 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
403 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
404 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
405 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
406 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
408 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
409 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
410 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
411 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
412 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
413 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
414 (Thanks, David Prévot)
415 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
416 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
417 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
418 target fails. Closes: #601037
419 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
421 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
422 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
423 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
424 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
425 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
427 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
428 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
430 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
431 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
432 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
434 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
436 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
439 * update french translation.
440 * Fix french misspelling.
441 * French translation update after massive man page typography
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
445 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
448 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
451 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
455 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
457 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
461 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
463 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
464 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
465 introduced by the fix to #527990.
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
469 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
471 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
472 changes are planned for that mode.
473 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
474 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
475 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
476 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
477 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
478 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
479 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
480 (genesis) still uses them.
481 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
482 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
483 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
484 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
485 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
486 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
487 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
488 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
489 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
490 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
491 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
492 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
493 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
494 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
495 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
496 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
497 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
498 commands. (See #570039)
499 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
501 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
506 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
508 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
510 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
511 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
512 in control file or debhelper config files.
513 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
517 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
519 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
520 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
521 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
525 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
527 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
528 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
532 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
534 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
535 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
536 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
540 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
542 * Updated French translation.
543 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
544 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
545 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
546 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
548 * Typo. Closes: #571968
549 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
550 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
551 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
552 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
553 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
554 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
555 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
556 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
557 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
559 * dh: Improve documentation.
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
563 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
565 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
566 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
567 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
571 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
573 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
574 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
578 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
580 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
581 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
585 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
588 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
589 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
590 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
591 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
592 options that they do not support.
593 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
594 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
595 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
596 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
597 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
598 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
603 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
605 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
607 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
608 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
609 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
610 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
611 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
612 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
613 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
614 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
615 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
619 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
621 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
622 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
623 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
624 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
625 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
629 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
631 * Typo. Closes: #558654
632 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
633 installed. Closes: #558782
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
637 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
640 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
641 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
642 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
643 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
644 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
648 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
650 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
651 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
652 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
653 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
657 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
660 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
661 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
665 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
667 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
671 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
673 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
674 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
675 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
676 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
677 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
678 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
679 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
680 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
681 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
682 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
683 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
684 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
685 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
686 time soon.) Closes: #554509
687 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
689 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
690 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
691 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
692 document id. Closes: #555677
693 * Typo. Closes: #555659
694 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
695 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
696 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
697 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
699 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
700 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
701 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
706 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
709 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
710 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
711 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
712 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
713 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
714 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
715 translation (#494300 part 2)
718 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
720 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
721 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
722 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
723 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
724 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
728 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
730 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
731 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
732 (It was only run once due to logging.)
733 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
734 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
735 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
736 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
737 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
738 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
739 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
740 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
741 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
742 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
746 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
749 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
750 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
753 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
754 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
758 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
761 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
762 flag with arch all/any packages.
763 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
764 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
765 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
766 situation. Closes: #540794
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
770 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
774 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
775 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
776 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
777 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
778 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
781 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
782 the default. Closes: #538201
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
787 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
789 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
791 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
792 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
793 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
794 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
795 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
797 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
798 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
799 * Above Closes: #491117
800 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
805 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
811 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
812 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
813 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
817 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
820 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
821 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
822 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
823 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
824 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
829 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
831 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
832 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
833 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
837 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
839 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
843 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
845 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
846 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
848 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
849 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
850 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
854 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
856 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
857 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
861 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
867 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
869 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
870 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
871 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
876 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
878 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
882 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
885 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
886 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
887 created by using `python' first during build and install.
889 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
894 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
896 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
900 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
902 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
903 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
907 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
909 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
913 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
915 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
919 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
921 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
922 contributed by Modestas Vainius
923 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
924 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
925 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
926 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
927 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
928 that support it. Closes: #480577
929 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
930 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
931 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
933 - Adds support for cmake.
934 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
935 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
937 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
939 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
940 that use them. The options are:
941 --sourcedir, --destdir
942 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
943 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
944 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
945 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
946 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
950 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
956 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
958 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
959 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
960 default. Closes: #537140
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
964 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
967 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
968 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
972 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
974 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
975 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
979 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
982 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
986 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
988 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
989 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
991 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
992 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
993 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
997 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
1000 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
1001 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
1002 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
1006 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
1009 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
1010 warning or deprecation message.
1011 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
1012 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
1013 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
1014 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
1015 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
1016 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
1017 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
1018 Closes: #534639, #357434
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
1022 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
1028 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
1031 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
1032 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
1033 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
1034 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
1036 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
1037 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
1038 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
1042 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
1048 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
1055 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
1058 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
1062 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
1066 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
1067 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
1069 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
1070 file support. Closes: #494914
1071 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
1075 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
1078 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
1079 parameters. Closes: #527256
1080 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
1081 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
1082 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
1086 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
1089 (Patch from #459548)
1090 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
1091 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
1092 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1096 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1099 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1100 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1101 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1105 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1108 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1109 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1111 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1112 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1113 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1117 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1121 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1125 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1128 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1129 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1130 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1131 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1136 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1142 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1145 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1146 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1147 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1148 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1149 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1151 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1152 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1153 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1154 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1155 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1156 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1160 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1163 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1164 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1165 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1166 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1167 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1169 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1173 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1175 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1179 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1181 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1182 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1183 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1184 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1185 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1186 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1187 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1188 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1189 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1190 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1191 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1195 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1197 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1198 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1200 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1201 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1202 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1203 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1205 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1206 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1210 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1212 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1213 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1214 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1215 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1216 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1217 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1218 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1220 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1221 that uses them. Affected options are:
1222 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1223 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1224 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1225 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1226 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1227 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1228 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1229 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1230 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1231 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1232 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1233 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1237 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1244 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1250 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1253 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1255 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1256 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1257 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1258 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1259 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1260 than the old method.
1261 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1263 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1264 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1265 rules (see bug #509756).
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1269 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1275 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1276 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1277 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1278 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1282 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1285 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1286 empty files. Closes: #490937
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1290 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1296 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1303 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1306 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1307 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1308 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1309 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1314 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1316 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1317 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1318 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1319 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1323 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1326 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1327 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1328 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1329 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1330 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1334 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1341 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1344 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1345 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1346 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1347 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1348 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1349 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1350 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1351 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1352 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1356 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1359 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1360 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1361 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1362 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1364 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1365 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1366 breaking backwards compatibility.
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1370 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1373 message in perl 5.10.
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1377 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1383 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1386 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1390 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1393 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1397 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1400 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1401 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1402 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1403 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1404 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1405 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1406 logging by dh_listpackages.
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1410 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1413 run and there are no packages of that type.
1414 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1415 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1416 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1417 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1419 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1420 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1424 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1427 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1428 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1432 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1435 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1436 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1438 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1439 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1440 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1441 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1442 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1443 planned but not yet implemented.)
1444 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1445 if the Makefile has such a target.
1446 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1447 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1448 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1449 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1450 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1451 but not yet implemented.)
1452 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1453 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1454 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1455 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1456 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1458 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1460 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1461 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1463 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1464 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1465 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1470 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1473 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1474 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1478 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1480 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1481 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1482 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1486 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1492 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1498 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1501 just those installed by the program.
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1505 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1508 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1509 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1513 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1516 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1517 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1518 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1519 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1523 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1526 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1527 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1531 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1534 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1535 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1539 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1542 with policy. Closes: #461392
1543 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1544 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1545 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1546 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1547 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1551 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1554 Closes: #460340, #460351
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1558 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1561 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1562 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1563 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1564 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1568 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1571 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1572 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1573 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1574 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1575 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1576 package build directory won't work.
1577 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1578 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1579 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1580 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1581 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1582 mode. Closes: #459426
1583 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1588 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1591 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1595 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1599 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1600 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1601 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1602 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1603 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1604 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1608 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1611 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1612 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1613 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1614 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1618 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1621 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1622 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1623 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1624 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1625 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1629 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1632 debian/package.triggers files.
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1636 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1639 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1643 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1646 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1647 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1648 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1649 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1654 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1657 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1661 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1664 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1665 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1667 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1672 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1676 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1677 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1678 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1682 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1689 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1696 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1699 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1701 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1702 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1703 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1705 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1706 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1707 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1711 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1714 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1715 * Update urls to web page.
1716 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1717 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1718 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1719 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1723 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1726 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1727 - typo in alternatives call
1728 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1730 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1731 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1735 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1738 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1743 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1749 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1755 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1758 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1760 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1761 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1762 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1763 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1764 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1765 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1766 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1767 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1768 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1769 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1770 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1774 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1777 package install. Closes: #415717
1778 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1779 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1780 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1781 script and then remove the python files.
1782 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1783 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1784 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1785 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1786 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1787 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1788 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1789 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1790 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1791 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1792 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1793 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1794 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1798 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * Correct typo in french translation
1804 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1805 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1807 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1809 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1810 Closes: #406921, #381940
1811 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1813 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1814 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1815 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1816 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1817 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1818 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1819 specified). Closes: #381851
1820 * Misc minor changes.
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1824 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1831 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1832 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1836 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1842 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1843 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1846 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1847 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1849 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1850 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1851 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1852 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1856 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1859 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1862 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1866 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1872 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1878 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1879 a difficult situation.
1880 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1881 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1882 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1883 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1884 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1885 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1886 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1887 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1888 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1889 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1893 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * Non-maintainer upload.
1896 * Update of dh_python
1897 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1898 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1900 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1901 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1902 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1903 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1904 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1906 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1908 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * Non-maintainer upload.
1911 * Update of dh_python
1912 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1913 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1914 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1915 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1916 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1917 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1918 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1919 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1920 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1921 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1923 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1924 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1925 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1926 the not too-distant future).
1927 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1928 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1929 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1930 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1931 thus made the build fail.
1933 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1935 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * Non-maintainer upload.
1938 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1940 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1942 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1945 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1946 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1947 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1948 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1949 package. Closes: #301424
1950 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1951 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1952 fonts). Closes: #372686
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1956 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1962 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1963 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1964 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1965 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1966 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1967 above, but already depends on that.
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1971 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1974 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1975 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1976 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1977 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1978 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1982 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1988 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1994 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1995 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1999 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
2002 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
2006 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
2010 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
2011 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
2012 new version (0.24.1).
2013 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
2014 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
2017 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
2018 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
2019 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
2020 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
2021 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
2022 new directory on their own.
2023 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
2024 * Fix broken directory removal code.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
2028 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
2031 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
2032 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
2033 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
2034 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
2038 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
2041 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
2042 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
2043 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
2044 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
2045 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
2049 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
2055 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Typo. Closes: #358904
2059 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
2060 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
2064 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2065 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
2069 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
2071 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
2072 || exit 0 instead of the intended
2074 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
2075 ignored. Closes: #337664
2077 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
2082 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
2088 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
2093 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
2094 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2095 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2096 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2097 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2098 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2099 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2103 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2106 version. Closes: #350607
2107 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2108 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2109 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2110 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2114 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2117 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2118 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2119 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2123 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2130 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2136 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2139 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2143 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2146 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2147 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2148 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2149 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2150 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2151 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2155 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2158 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2159 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2164 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2167 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2171 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2174 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2178 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2181 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2182 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2183 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2184 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2185 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2186 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2190 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2194 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2195 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2196 link. Closes: #346405
2197 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2199 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2200 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2201 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2202 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2203 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2204 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2205 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2209 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2216 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2222 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2225 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2229 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2232 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2237 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2241 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2242 installed. Closes: #342033
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2246 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2249 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2250 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2251 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2256 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2262 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2268 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2272 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2273 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2274 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2278 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2281 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2286 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2293 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2299 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2302 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2303 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2304 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2305 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2306 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2307 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2308 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2310 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2314 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2317 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2318 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2322 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2325 in standard man dirs.
2326 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2330 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2336 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2339 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2344 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2351 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2358 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2361 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2362 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2366 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2369 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2370 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2371 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2373 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2375 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2381 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2387 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2390 mode. Closes: #324161
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2394 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2397 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2398 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2399 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2400 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2405 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2408 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2409 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2410 is necesary for sanity.
2411 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2412 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2417 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2419 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2420 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2424 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2427 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2431 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2437 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2440 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2441 released, so use at your own risk.
2442 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2443 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2445 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2446 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2447 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2448 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2449 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2450 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2451 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2452 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2453 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2454 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2455 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2456 including twice per config file line now..
2457 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2458 and simplfy the rules file.
2459 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2460 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2461 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2463 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2464 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2468 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2471 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2475 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2478 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2482 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2485 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2489 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2492 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2493 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2494 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2495 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2496 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2497 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2501 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2504 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2505 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2506 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2511 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2514 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2515 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2520 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2523 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2524 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2525 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2530 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2533 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2534 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2535 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2539 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2545 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2552 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2555 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2556 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2557 unknown. Closes: #282924
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2561 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2568 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * Spanish man page updates.
2571 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2576 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2582 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2585 * dh_desktop: reindent
2586 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2587 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2591 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2597 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2599 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2603 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2605 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2609 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2612 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2613 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2617 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2623 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2629 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2636 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2639 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2643 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2646 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2647 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2648 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2649 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2650 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2651 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2653 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2654 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2655 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2656 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2657 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2658 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2659 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2660 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2661 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2662 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2663 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2664 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2665 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2666 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2667 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2668 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2672 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2679 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2682 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2686 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2689 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2693 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2696 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2700 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2703 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2707 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2713 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2719 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2725 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2728 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2729 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2730 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2734 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2737 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2741 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2744 but occasionally right and necessary.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2748 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2751 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2752 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2753 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2754 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2755 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2759 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2762 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2764 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2765 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2766 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2767 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2768 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2769 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2770 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2771 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2772 postinst scripts for udebs.
2773 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2777 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2780 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2782 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2783 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2787 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2793 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2800 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2807 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2810 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2814 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2817 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2821 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2824 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2827 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2828 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2832 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2838 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2841 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2845 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2848 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2849 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2850 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2852 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2854 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2855 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2856 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2860 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2863 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2868 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2871 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2872 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2873 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2878 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2884 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2890 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2893 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2894 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2895 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2896 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2897 associated -dbg packages.
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2901 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2904 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2908 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2911 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2915 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2918 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2922 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2925 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2930 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2933 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2937 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2940 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2945 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2948 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2952 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2956 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2957 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2958 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2959 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2960 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2961 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2962 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2963 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2964 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2965 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2969 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2972 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2977 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2980 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2981 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2985 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2988 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2989 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2994 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2997 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
3001 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
3004 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
3008 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
3011 out section number. Closes: #204731
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
3015 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
3022 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
3028 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
3034 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * Typo, Closes: #203907
3037 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
3038 removal. Closes: #204286
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
3042 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
3045 renaming. Closes: #203548
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
3049 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
3052 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
3053 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
3057 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
3063 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
3069 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
3075 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
3078 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
3079 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
3080 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
3084 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
3087 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
3088 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
3092 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3098 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3105 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3108 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3113 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3116 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3120 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3123 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3125 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3126 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3130 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3133 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3138 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3141 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3145 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3151 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3153 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3157 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3160 it break hard links (see #188663).
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3164 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3167 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3171 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3177 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3181 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3182 debconf-mergetemplates
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3186 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3189 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3193 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3196 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3200 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3203 * Update debhelper(1).
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3207 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3210 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3211 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3212 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3213 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3214 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3218 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3221 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3222 the shell. Closes: #178524
3223 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3227 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3230 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3234 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3237 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3241 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3244 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3245 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3246 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3247 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3252 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3255 files from installation.
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3259 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3262 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3263 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3267 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3270 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3274 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3277 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3281 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3287 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3293 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3297 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3298 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3300 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3304 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3307 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3308 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3309 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3310 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3314 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3317 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3321 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3324 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3325 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3329 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3333 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3338 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3344 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3348 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3349 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3350 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3355 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3358 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3359 practice. Closes: #163303
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3363 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3369 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3376 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3379 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3381 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3382 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3383 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3384 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3385 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3389 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3392 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3397 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3403 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3410 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3413 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3418 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3424 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3430 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3436 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3438 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3443 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3446 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3447 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3448 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3449 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3454 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3460 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3467 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3470 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3471 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3475 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3478 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3479 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3480 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3481 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3482 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3486 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3489 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3491 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3496 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3499 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3503 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3506 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3507 right thing. Closes: #150644
3509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3511 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3513 * Stupid, evil typo.
3514 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3518 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3525 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3528 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3529 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3534 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3540 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3543 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3547 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3550 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3551 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3556 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3559 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3563 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3569 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3572 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3573 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3577 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3583 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * Removing perl warning message.
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3589 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3592 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3593 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3594 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3595 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3596 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3597 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3598 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3599 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3603 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3609 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3616 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3619 debconf-mergetemplate.
3620 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3621 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3625 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3628 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3629 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3630 dh_install, which ...
3631 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3632 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3633 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3634 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3635 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3636 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3637 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3638 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3639 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3640 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3641 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3642 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3643 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3644 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3645 other minor changes.
3646 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3647 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3648 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3649 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3650 course there's -X ..)
3651 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3652 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3653 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3655 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3656 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3657 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3658 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3659 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3664 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3670 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3673 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3677 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3683 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3689 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3695 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3701 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3704 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3705 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3706 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3707 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3709 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3710 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3714 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3720 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3723 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3727 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3730 upset. Closes: #131322
3732 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3734 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3737 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3738 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3739 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3740 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3741 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3742 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3743 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3744 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3745 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3746 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3747 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3748 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3749 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3750 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3751 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3753 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3757 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3760 - Better indenting of generated code.
3761 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3765 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3769 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3770 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3771 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3772 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3773 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3774 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3775 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3779 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3781 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3782 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3786 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3789 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3790 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3791 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3792 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3793 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3794 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3795 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3796 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3797 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3798 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3799 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3800 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3801 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3802 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3803 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3808 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3814 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3816 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3817 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3818 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3822 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3825 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3826 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3830 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3836 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3839 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3840 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3841 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3842 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3843 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3848 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3854 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3857 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3861 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3863 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3864 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3869 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3871 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3875 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3878 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3882 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3888 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3892 Also some indentation fixes.
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3896 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3899 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3900 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3901 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3902 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3903 Closes: #106514, #85520
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3907 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3913 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3919 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3925 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3927 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3931 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3933 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3937 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3940 change it in debhelper v4..
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3944 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3950 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3953 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3957 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3960 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3964 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3970 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3972 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3973 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3974 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3975 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3976 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3977 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3978 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3979 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3980 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3981 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3982 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3983 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3984 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3988 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3990 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3991 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3995 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3997 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
4000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
4002 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4004 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
4005 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
4006 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
4007 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
4008 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
4009 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
4010 program those options go to. So, for example,
4011 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
4012 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
4013 something complex. Closes: #89311
4014 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
4018 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
4021 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
4022 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
4023 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
4027 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4029 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
4030 through loop. Closes: #98598
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
4034 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * Missing semi-colon.
4037 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
4038 this (dh_* should be called, really).
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
4042 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
4045 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
4046 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
4047 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
4051 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4053 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
4054 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
4055 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
4059 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
4062 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
4066 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
4069 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
4070 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
4074 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
4077 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
4078 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
4079 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
4083 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
4086 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
4087 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
4088 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
4090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
4092 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4094 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4095 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4099 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4101 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4105 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4111 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4113 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4117 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4123 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4126 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4130 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4133 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4134 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4135 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4136 followed. Closes: #85483
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4140 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4142 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4143 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4144 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4148 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4151 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4152 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4153 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4154 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4155 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4156 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4157 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4158 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4159 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4160 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4161 Closes: #88464, #77743
4162 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4163 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4164 us to deal with that gracefully.
4165 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4167 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4168 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4169 a while, Closes: #51225
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4173 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4179 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4182 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4186 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4190 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4195 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4197 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4198 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4199 don't make packlist files.
4200 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4201 debhelper coding standards.
4202 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4203 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4207 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4209 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4210 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4214 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4216 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4217 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4218 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4219 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4220 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4221 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4222 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4223 but is mildly deprecated.
4224 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4225 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4226 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4227 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4228 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4229 switching to statoverrides..
4230 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4231 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4232 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4233 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4234 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4235 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4237 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4238 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4239 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4240 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4241 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4242 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4243 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4244 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4245 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4247 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4248 variable names, pod man pages).
4249 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4250 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4251 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4252 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4253 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4254 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4255 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4259 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4261 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4265 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4267 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4272 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4275 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4279 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4281 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4282 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4283 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4287 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4289 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4290 they were previously ignored.
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4294 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4296 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4297 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4301 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4303 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4304 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4305 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4309 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4311 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4315 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4317 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4318 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4322 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4324 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4325 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4326 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4327 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4328 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4329 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4330 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4331 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4332 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4333 it is an obsolete program.
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4337 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4339 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4343 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4347 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4349 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4351 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4353 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4355 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4357 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4359 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4363 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4369 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4371 * typo: Closes, #78567
4373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4375 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4377 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4381 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4383 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4387 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4390 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4391 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4392 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4393 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4394 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4398 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4400 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4401 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4406 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4409 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4410 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4411 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4412 backwards-compatibility.
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4416 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4419 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4420 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4421 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4422 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4423 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4424 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4426 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4427 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4428 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4430 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4432 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4433 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4434 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4435 should now be raised to severity important..
4436 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4437 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4441 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4444 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4449 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4451 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4455 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4461 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4467 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4474 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4477 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4478 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4479 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4480 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4484 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4490 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4493 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4494 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4495 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4496 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4497 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4498 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4503 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4506 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4510 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4516 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4519 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4524 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4527 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4528 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4529 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4530 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4534 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4538 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4541 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4544 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4545 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4548 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4550 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4551 the TODO entry about it.
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4555 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4562 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4565 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4566 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4570 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4572 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4573 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4574 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4575 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4576 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4580 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4586 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4588 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4593 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4596 (this appears to be logal).
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4600 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4603 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4604 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4605 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4606 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4610 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4616 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4619 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4620 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4621 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4622 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4626 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4628 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4632 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4634 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4635 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4639 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4641 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4646 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4649 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4650 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4651 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4656 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4658 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4663 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4669 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4671 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4672 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4673 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4674 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4675 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4676 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4677 notice until v2 is complete.
4678 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
4679 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4680 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4681 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4682 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4683 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4685 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4686 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4687 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4688 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4692 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4698 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4705 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4708 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4712 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4714 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4719 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4721 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4722 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4723 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4724 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4725 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4730 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4732 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4733 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4734 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4735 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4740 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4742 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4743 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4744 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4748 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4750 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4751 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4755 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4757 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4758 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4762 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4769 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4772 depend on the build and install targets.
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4776 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4779 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4783 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4790 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4796 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4798 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4802 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4805 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4806 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4807 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4808 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4809 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4810 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4812 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4813 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4814 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4815 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4816 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4817 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4818 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4822 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4824 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4828 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4830 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4834 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4836 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4837 right place. Closes: #55065
4839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4841 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4843 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4848 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4851 * Copyright date updates.
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4855 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4858 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4863 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4865 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4869 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4871 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4876 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4882 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4888 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4890 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4894 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4896 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4897 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4898 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4899 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4900 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4901 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4902 bits until all files have been registered.
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4906 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * dh_installmanpages:
4909 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4910 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4911 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4912 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4913 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4914 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4915 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4916 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4917 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4918 otherwise change the result at all.
4920 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4921 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4922 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4923 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4924 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4929 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4931 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4935 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4937 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4938 act on files that don't exist.
4939 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4940 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4941 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4943 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4944 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4945 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4946 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4950 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4952 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4956 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4958 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4962 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4964 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4965 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4969 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4971 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4972 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4974 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4975 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4976 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4980 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4982 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4983 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4984 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4985 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4986 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4987 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4988 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4989 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4991 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4993 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4997 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
5004 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5006 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
5010 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
5016 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
5019 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
5023 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
5029 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
5035 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
5038 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
5039 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
5040 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
5041 I made some changes, though:
5042 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
5043 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
5044 that is a clear violation of policy.
5045 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
5046 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
5047 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
5048 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
5049 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
5050 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
5051 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
5052 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
5053 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
5055 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
5057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
5059 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5061 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
5063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
5065 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5067 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
5068 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
5072 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
5075 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
5076 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
5079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
5081 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5083 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
5087 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
5094 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5097 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5098 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5099 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5100 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5101 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5102 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5103 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5107 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5113 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5115 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5117 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5118 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5122 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5124 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5128 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5130 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5131 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5135 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5137 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5138 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5139 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5143 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5145 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5150 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5152 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5154 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5158 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5160 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5161 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5162 for the dependancies to be generated.
5164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5166 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5168 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5169 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5173 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5175 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5176 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5177 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5178 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5183 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5186 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5187 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5191 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5193 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5197 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5203 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5206 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5210 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5212 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5216 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5218 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5219 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5220 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5221 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5222 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5223 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5224 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5225 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5226 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5227 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5228 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5229 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5230 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5234 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5236 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5237 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5238 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5240 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5241 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5242 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5243 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5244 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5245 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5247 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5248 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5252 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5254 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5255 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5259 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5261 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5266 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5269 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5274 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5277 for building debhelper.
5278 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5282 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5289 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5291 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5292 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5296 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5299 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5300 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5301 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5302 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5303 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5304 it's always available.
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5308 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5310 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5311 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5312 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5313 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5317 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5319 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5320 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5321 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5325 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5327 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5331 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5333 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5334 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5338 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5340 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5344 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5346 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5347 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5348 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5349 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5353 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5355 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5356 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5361 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5363 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5364 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5365 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5367 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5368 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5372 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5374 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5378 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5380 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5384 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5387 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5391 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5394 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5395 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5397 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5401 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5404 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5405 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5406 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5410 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5412 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5413 things if CDPATH is set.
5415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5417 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5419 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5423 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5425 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5426 seems to make sense for the transition.
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5430 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5432 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5433 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5438 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5441 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5442 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5446 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5448 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5449 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5453 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5455 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5456 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5457 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5458 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5459 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5463 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5465 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5469 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5471 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5472 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5473 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5474 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5475 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5476 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5477 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5478 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5479 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5480 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5481 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
5484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5486 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5488 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5489 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5490 * README: mention doc/v2
5491 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5492 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5496 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5498 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5499 be using this script RSN.
5501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5503 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5505 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5506 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5507 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5508 more than 1 init script.
5510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5512 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5514 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5515 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5519 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * Changed perl version detection.
5522 * Changed call to find.
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5526 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5529 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5531 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5536 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * Really include dh_installpam.
5540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5542 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5544 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5545 * Wrote man page for same.
5547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5549 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5551 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5552 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5553 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5558 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5565 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5567 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5568 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5569 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5570 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5571 x bit was being set!
5573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5575 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5577 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5578 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5579 well. (Closes: 38900)
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5583 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5586 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5587 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5591 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5593 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5597 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5599 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5604 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5610 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5612 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5613 help from Julian Gilbey.
5614 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5615 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5616 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5617 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5618 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5619 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5620 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5625 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5631 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5633 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5638 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5644 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5646 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5650 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5652 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5653 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5657 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5660 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5664 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5667 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5671 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5677 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5679 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5680 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5684 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5686 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5690 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5692 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5696 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5698 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5699 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5700 may be deleted. (#35845)
5702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5704 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5706 * Various man page enhancements.
5707 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5712 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5714 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5715 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5716 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5720 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5722 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5723 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5724 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5725 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5727 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5728 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5733 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5735 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5739 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5741 * Another very minor typo fix.
5743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5745 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5747 * Very minor typo fix.
5749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5751 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5753 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5754 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5755 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5759 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5761 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5765 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5767 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5768 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5769 variables properly (#34850).
5771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5773 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5775 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5779 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5781 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5782 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5783 (automatically generated by build process).
5785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5787 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5789 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5793 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5795 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5796 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5797 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5799 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5803 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5805 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5806 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5810 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5812 * README: minor typo fix.
5814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5816 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5818 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5819 leave it at that. :-)
5821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5823 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5825 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5829 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5831 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5835 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5837 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5838 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5839 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5840 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5844 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5846 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5847 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5851 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5853 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5854 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5858 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5860 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5861 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5862 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5863 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5864 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5868 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5870 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5871 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5872 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5873 Craig Small for spotting this.
5875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5877 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5879 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5880 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5881 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5885 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5887 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5891 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5893 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5894 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5898 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5900 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5901 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5902 working on the last version of debhelper.
5904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5906 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5908 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5909 being made. (#23255)
5911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5913 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5915 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5919 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5921 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5922 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5926 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5928 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5929 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5930 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5931 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5932 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5936 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5938 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5939 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5940 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5941 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5942 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5944 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5945 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5947 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5952 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5954 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5958 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5960 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5964 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5966 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5967 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5968 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5969 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5970 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5971 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5972 suidregister actually supports it.
5973 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5974 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5978 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5980 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5985 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5987 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5988 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5989 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5990 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5991 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5992 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5993 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5994 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5998 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
6000 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
6001 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
6003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
6005 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
6007 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
6008 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
6009 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
6010 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
6011 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
6013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
6015 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
6017 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
6018 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
6020 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
6021 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
6022 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
6023 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
6024 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
6025 effect, either. (#30118)
6027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
6029 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
6031 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
6033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
6035 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
6037 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
6038 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
6039 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
6041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
6043 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
6045 * Spelling and typo fixes.
6047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
6049 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
6051 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
6052 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
6053 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
6054 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
6055 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
6057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
6059 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
6061 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
6062 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
6063 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
6065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
6067 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
6069 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
6071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
6073 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
6075 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
6076 packages, painlessly.
6078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
6080 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
6082 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
6084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
6086 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
6088 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
6090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
6092 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
6094 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6098 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6100 * The perl conversion is complete.
6102 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6104 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6105 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6106 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6111 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6113 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6114 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6115 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6116 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6120 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6122 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6123 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6125 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6127 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6128 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6132 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6134 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6135 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6136 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6140 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6142 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6146 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6148 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6149 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6150 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6151 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6152 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6153 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6157 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6159 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6160 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6161 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6162 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6163 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6167 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6169 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6170 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6174 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6176 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6177 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6178 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6179 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6180 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6181 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6182 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6183 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6184 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6188 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6190 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6194 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6196 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6197 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6198 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6199 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6204 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6206 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6207 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6211 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6213 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6214 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6218 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6220 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6221 sections of shared libraries.
6222 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6223 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6224 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6225 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6226 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6227 things you don't want them to.
6228 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6229 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6233 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6235 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6236 shared libraries. (#26414)
6238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6240 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6242 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6243 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6244 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6245 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6249 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6251 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6253 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6255 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6256 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6257 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6258 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6259 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6263 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6265 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6266 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6270 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6272 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6273 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6274 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6279 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6281 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6282 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6286 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6288 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6289 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6290 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6291 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6292 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6293 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6295 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6296 remove debian/files properly.
6297 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6298 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6299 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6300 * Removed bogus menu file.
6302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6304 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6306 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6307 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6311 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6313 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6314 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6315 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6316 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6317 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6318 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6319 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6323 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6325 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6326 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6327 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6328 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6329 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6333 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6335 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6340 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6342 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6343 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6344 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6346 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6347 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6348 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6349 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6350 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6351 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6355 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6357 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6358 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6359 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6360 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6361 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6362 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6363 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6364 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6365 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6366 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6367 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6368 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6369 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6370 passed any switches.
6371 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6375 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6377 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6378 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6379 at all for a long while.
6380 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6381 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6382 large chunks in the process.
6383 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6384 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6385 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6390 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6392 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6393 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6395 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6400 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6402 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6403 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6404 that don't always have the same files in them.
6405 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6406 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6407 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6411 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6413 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6415 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6416 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6417 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6418 updating 27 man pages.
6419 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6420 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6421 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6422 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6423 programs act on. (#25247)
6425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6427 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6431 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6432 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6433 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6434 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6435 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6436 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6441 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6443 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6448 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6450 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6455 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6457 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6458 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6462 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6464 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6468 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6470 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6471 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6472 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6473 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6474 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6475 package by accident.
6476 * Is version 1.0 next?
6478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6480 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6482 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6483 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6484 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6488 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6490 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6491 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6492 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6493 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6494 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6495 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6497 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6502 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6504 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6505 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6506 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6510 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6512 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6513 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6517 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6519 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6520 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6521 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6526 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6528 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6532 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6534 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6535 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6536 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6541 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6543 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6547 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6549 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6550 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6551 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6552 past week. Thanks, guys!
6554 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6555 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6556 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6557 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6558 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6559 would do in the same situation.
6560 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6561 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6563 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6565 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6566 permissions changed.
6567 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6568 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6569 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6570 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6571 files are treated identically.
6572 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6573 * Minor man page fixes.
6574 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6575 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6576 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6580 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6582 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6583 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6584 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6585 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6586 use -X multiple times, too.
6587 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6588 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6592 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6594 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6595 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6596 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6600 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6602 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6603 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6607 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6609 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6610 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6611 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6612 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6613 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6614 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6615 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6616 shape if you're starting a new package.
6618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6620 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6622 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6623 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6627 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6629 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6630 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6631 because of missing symlinks.
6633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6635 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6637 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6641 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6643 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6644 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6645 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6646 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6647 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6648 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6650 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6651 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6655 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6657 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6658 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6659 to be changed after the fact :-)
6660 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6664 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6666 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6667 no version string after the -V.
6669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6671 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6673 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6674 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6679 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6681 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6682 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6686 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6688 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6689 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6690 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6691 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6692 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6693 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6694 I always welcome corrections!
6696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6698 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6700 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6704 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6706 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6707 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6708 * Documented this new switch.
6710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6712 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6714 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6715 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6716 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6717 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6718 no packages use the old behavior.
6720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6722 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6724 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6725 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6726 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6730 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6732 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6733 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6737 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6739 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6743 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6745 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6746 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6750 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6752 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6753 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6754 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6755 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6759 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6761 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6765 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6767 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6768 into the source package by accident.
6770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6772 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6774 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6775 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6776 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6777 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6778 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6779 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6780 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6785 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6787 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6789 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6790 inspired to implement some of it.
6791 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6795 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6797 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6798 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6802 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6804 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6805 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6806 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6810 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6812 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6813 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6814 have done.) (#17598)
6816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6818 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6820 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6824 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6826 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6830 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6832 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6833 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6837 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6839 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6840 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6841 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6845 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6847 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6848 argument processor in perl.
6849 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6850 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6851 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6852 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6856 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6858 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6859 type directories. (#16933)
6860 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6861 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6862 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6863 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6864 are supported. (#16935)
6865 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6870 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6872 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6873 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6877 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6879 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6881 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6882 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6883 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6884 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6885 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6886 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6890 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6892 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6893 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6894 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6896 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6897 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6898 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6899 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6900 a given package, or -i or -a.
6901 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6902 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6903 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6904 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6905 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6906 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6907 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6908 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6909 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6911 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6912 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6913 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6917 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6919 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6920 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6921 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6926 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6928 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6929 does not have a section.
6931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6933 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6935 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6936 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6937 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6938 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6942 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6944 * Fixed typo #16215.
6946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6948 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6950 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6951 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6952 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6953 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6954 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6955 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6960 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6962 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6963 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6964 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6965 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6970 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6972 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6976 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6978 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6982 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6984 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6985 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6986 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6987 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6988 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6989 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6990 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6994 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6996 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
7000 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
7002 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
7003 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
7005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
7007 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
7009 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
7010 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
7011 the dh_* programs (#15497).
7012 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
7014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
7016 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
7018 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
7019 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
7021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
7023 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
7025 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
7027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
7029 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
7031 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
7032 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
7034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
7036 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
7038 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
7039 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
7041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
7043 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
7045 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
7047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
7049 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
7051 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
7052 postinst, postrm, etc.
7054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
7056 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
7058 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
7060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
7062 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
7064 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
7065 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
7066 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
7067 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
7068 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
7069 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
7071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
7073 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
7075 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
7076 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
7077 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
7079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
7081 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
7083 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
7084 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
7086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
7088 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
7090 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
7091 installing package files into.
7092 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7097 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7099 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7101 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7105 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7107 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7111 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7113 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7114 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7118 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7120 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7121 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7122 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7123 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7124 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7128 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7130 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7131 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7132 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7133 multiple binary packages.
7134 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7135 should rebuild them with this version.
7136 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7140 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7142 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7143 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7147 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7149 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7150 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7154 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7156 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7157 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7158 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7159 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7160 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7161 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7162 debian/README.debian.
7163 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7164 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7165 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7166 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7167 in a few situations.)
7169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7171 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7173 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7177 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7179 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7183 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7185 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7186 * Fixed several man pages.
7188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7190 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7192 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7193 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7194 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7198 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7200 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7201 is ready for general use.
7202 * Added man pages for all commands.
7203 * Multiple binary package support.
7204 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7205 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7206 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7208 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7209 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7210 auto-installed as parameters.
7211 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7213 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7216 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7217 the package build directory it is to act on.
7218 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7219 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7220 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7224 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7226 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7227 ready to replace debstd.
7229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400