1 debhelper (9.20120909) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * autoscript() can now be passed a perl sub to run to s/// lines of
4 the script, which avoids problems with using sed, including potentially
5 building too long a sed command-line. This will become the recommended
6 interface in the future; for now it can be used by specific commands
7 such as dh_installxmlcatalogs that encounter the problem.
8 Closes: #665296 Thanks, Marcin Owsiany
10 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:23:10 -0400
12 debhelper (9.20120830) unstable; urgency=low
14 * dh_installcatalogs: Adjust catalog conffile conversion to avoid
15 dpkg conffile prompt when upgrading from a removed package.
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:04:10 -0400
20 debhelper (9.20120608) unstable; urgency=low
22 * dh: When there's an -indep override target without -arch, or vice versa,
23 avoid acting on packages covered by the override target when running
24 the command for packages not covered by it. Closes: #676462
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:15:48 -0400
28 debhelper (9.20120528) unstable; urgency=low
30 * dh_installcatalogs: Turn /etc/sgml/$package.cat into conffiles
31 and introduce dependency on trigger-based sgml-base. Closes: #477751
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 May 2012 13:40:26 -0400
36 debhelper (9.20120523) unstable; urgency=low
38 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #673629 Thanks, Omar Campagne
39 * Set Multi-Arch: foreign. Closes: #674193
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 May 2012 14:55:48 -0400
43 debhelper (9.20120518) unstable; urgency=low
45 * Fix versioned dependency on dpkg for xz options. Closes: #672895
46 * dh_link: Doc improvement. Closes: #672988
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 May 2012 11:05:03 -0400
50 debhelper (9.20120513) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Improve -v logging. Closes: #672448
53 * dh_builddeb: Build udebs with xz compression, level 1, extreme strategy.
54 This has been chosen to not need any more memory or cpu when uncompressing,
55 while yeilding the best compressions for udebs. Thanks, Philipp Kern.
56 * Depend on a new enough dpkg for above features. Backporters will need
57 to revert these changes.
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 May 2012 13:09:42 -0400
61 debhelper (9.20120509) unstable; urgency=low
63 * dh_installman: Recognize sections from mdoc .Dt entries. Closes: #670210
65 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #671598
66 * dh_install: Reorder documentation for clarity. Closes: #672109
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 May 2012 12:59:15 -0400
70 debhelper (9.20120419) unstable; urgency=low
72 * Fix compat level checking for cmake. Closes: #669181
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:35 -0400
76 debhelper (9.20120418) unstable; urgency=low
78 * cmake: Only pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS in v9.
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:39 -0400
82 debhelper (9.20120417) unstable; urgency=low
84 * cmake: Pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS. Closes: #668813
85 Thanks, Simon Ruderich for the patch and for verifying no affected
86 package is broken by this change.
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:29 -0400
90 debhelper (9.20120410) unstable; urgency=low
93 * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891
94 * Conflict with too old automake for AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. Closes: #666901
95 * dh_md5sums: Don't skip DEBIAN directories other than the control files
99 * dh_installinit: rework upstart handling to comply with new policy
100 proposal; packages will ship both an init script and an upstart job,
101 instead of just an upstart job and a symlink to a compat wrapper.
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:51:15 -0400
106 debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low
108 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
109 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
110 Added to interface documentation.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400
115 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
121 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
124 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
125 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
126 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
128 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
129 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
130 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
131 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
132 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
137 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
140 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
141 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
142 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
143 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
144 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
145 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
149 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
151 * Typo. Closes: #653006
152 * Typo. Closes: #653339
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
156 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
158 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
159 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
160 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
161 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
162 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
163 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
167 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
169 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
170 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
171 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
172 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
173 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
174 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
175 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
176 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
180 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
182 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
186 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
188 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
189 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
190 may need to disable this.
191 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
192 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
193 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
194 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
198 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
200 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
201 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
202 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
206 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
208 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
209 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
210 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
212 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
213 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
214 to dh. Closes: #643069
215 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
216 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
220 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
222 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
223 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
224 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
225 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
226 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
228 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
229 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
230 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
232 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
233 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
234 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
235 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
236 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
237 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
238 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
239 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
240 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
241 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
242 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
243 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
244 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
245 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
246 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
250 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
252 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
257 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
259 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
260 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
262 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
268 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
270 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
271 Use override targets instead.
272 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
273 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
274 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
275 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
276 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
277 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
278 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
279 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
280 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
281 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
286 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
288 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
289 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
293 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
295 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
299 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
302 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
303 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
304 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
305 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
306 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
307 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
311 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
313 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
314 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
315 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
316 the targets. Closes: #629139
317 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
318 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
319 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
320 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
321 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
322 are already set to other values will not be changed.
324 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
325 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
326 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
327 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
328 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
333 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
339 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
341 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
342 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
343 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
347 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
349 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
350 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
351 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
352 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
353 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
354 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
355 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
356 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
361 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
364 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
365 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
366 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
368 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
369 changes may be added to that mode.
370 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
371 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
372 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
373 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
374 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
375 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
376 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
377 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
378 * Removed old example rules files.
379 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
383 * update french translation.
384 * Fix french misspelling.
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
388 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
390 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
391 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
395 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
397 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
398 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
399 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
400 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
401 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
402 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
403 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
404 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
408 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
411 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
412 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
413 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
414 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
415 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
416 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
418 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
419 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
420 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
421 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
422 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
423 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
424 (Thanks, David Prévot)
425 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
426 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
427 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
428 target fails. Closes: #601037
429 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
431 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
432 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
433 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
434 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
435 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
437 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
438 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
440 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
441 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
442 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
444 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
446 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
449 * update french translation.
450 * Fix french misspelling.
451 * French translation update after massive man page typography
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
455 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
458 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
461 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
465 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
467 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
471 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
473 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
474 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
475 introduced by the fix to #527990.
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
479 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
482 changes are planned for that mode.
483 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
484 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
485 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
486 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
487 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
488 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
489 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
490 (genesis) still uses them.
491 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
492 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
493 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
494 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
495 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
496 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
497 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
498 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
499 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
500 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
501 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
502 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
503 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
504 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
505 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
506 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
507 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
508 commands. (See #570039)
509 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
511 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
516 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
518 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
520 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
521 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
522 in control file or debhelper config files.
523 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
527 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
530 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
531 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
535 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
537 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
538 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
542 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
544 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
545 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
546 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
550 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
552 * Updated French translation.
553 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
554 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
555 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
556 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
558 * Typo. Closes: #571968
559 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
560 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
561 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
562 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
563 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
564 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
565 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
566 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
567 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
569 * dh: Improve documentation.
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
573 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
575 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
576 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
577 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
581 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
583 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
584 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
588 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
590 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
591 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
595 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
597 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
598 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
599 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
600 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
601 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
602 options that they do not support.
603 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
604 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
605 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
606 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
607 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
608 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
613 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
615 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
617 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
618 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
619 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
620 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
621 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
622 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
623 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
624 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
625 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
629 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
631 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
632 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
633 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
634 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
635 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
639 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Typo. Closes: #558654
642 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
643 installed. Closes: #558782
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
647 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
649 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
650 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
651 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
652 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
653 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
654 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
658 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
660 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
661 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
662 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
663 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
667 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
670 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
671 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
675 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
677 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
681 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
683 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
684 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
685 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
686 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
687 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
688 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
689 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
690 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
691 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
692 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
693 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
694 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
695 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
696 time soon.) Closes: #554509
697 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
699 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
700 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
701 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
702 document id. Closes: #555677
703 * Typo. Closes: #555659
704 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
705 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
706 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
707 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
709 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
710 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
711 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
716 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
719 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
720 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
721 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
722 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
723 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
724 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
725 translation (#494300 part 2)
728 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
730 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
731 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
732 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
733 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
734 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
738 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
740 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
741 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
742 (It was only run once due to logging.)
743 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
744 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
745 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
746 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
747 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
748 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
749 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
750 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
751 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
752 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
756 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
759 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
760 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
763 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
764 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
768 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
770 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
771 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
772 flag with arch all/any packages.
773 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
774 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
775 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
776 situation. Closes: #540794
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
780 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
782 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
784 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
785 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
786 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
787 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
788 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
791 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
792 the default. Closes: #538201
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
797 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
801 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
802 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
803 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
804 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
805 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
807 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
808 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
809 * Above Closes: #491117
810 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
815 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
818 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
821 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
822 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
823 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
827 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
830 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
831 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
832 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
833 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
834 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
839 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
841 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
842 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
843 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
847 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
849 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
853 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
855 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
856 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
858 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
859 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
860 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
864 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
866 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
867 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
871 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
877 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
879 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
880 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
881 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
886 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
888 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
892 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
895 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
896 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
897 created by using `python' first during build and install.
899 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
904 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
906 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
910 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
912 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
913 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
917 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
919 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
923 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
925 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
929 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
931 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
932 contributed by Modestas Vainius
933 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
934 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
935 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
936 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
937 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
938 that support it. Closes: #480577
939 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
940 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
941 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
943 - Adds support for cmake.
944 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
945 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
947 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
949 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
950 that use them. The options are:
951 --sourcedir, --destdir
952 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
953 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
954 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
955 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
956 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
960 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
962 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
966 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
969 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
970 default. Closes: #537140
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
974 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
976 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
977 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
978 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
982 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
984 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
985 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
989 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
992 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
996 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
999 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
1001 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
1002 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
1003 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
1007 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
1010 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
1011 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
1012 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
1016 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
1019 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
1020 warning or deprecation message.
1021 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
1022 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
1023 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
1024 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
1025 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
1026 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
1027 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
1028 Closes: #534639, #357434
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
1032 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
1038 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
1041 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
1042 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
1043 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
1044 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
1046 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
1047 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
1048 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
1052 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
1058 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
1065 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
1068 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
1072 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
1076 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
1077 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
1079 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
1080 file support. Closes: #494914
1081 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
1085 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
1088 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
1089 parameters. Closes: #527256
1090 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
1091 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
1092 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
1096 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
1099 (Patch from #459548)
1100 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
1101 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
1102 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1106 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1109 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1110 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1111 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1115 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1118 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1119 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1121 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1122 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1123 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1127 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1131 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1135 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1138 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1139 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1140 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1141 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1146 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1152 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1155 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1156 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1157 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1158 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1159 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1161 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1162 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1163 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1164 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1165 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1166 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1170 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1173 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1174 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1175 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1176 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1177 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1179 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1183 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1185 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1189 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1191 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1192 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1193 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1194 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1195 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1196 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1197 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1198 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1199 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1200 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1201 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1205 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1207 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1208 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1210 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1211 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1212 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1213 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1215 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1216 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1220 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1222 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1223 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1224 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1225 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1226 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1227 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1228 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1230 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1231 that uses them. Affected options are:
1232 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1233 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1234 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1235 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1236 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1237 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1238 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1239 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1240 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1241 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1242 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1243 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1247 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1254 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1260 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1263 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1265 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1266 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1267 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1268 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1269 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1270 than the old method.
1271 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1273 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1274 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1275 rules (see bug #509756).
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1279 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1285 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1286 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1287 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1288 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1292 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1295 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1296 empty files. Closes: #490937
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1300 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1306 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1313 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1316 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1317 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1318 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1319 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1324 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1326 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1327 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1328 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1329 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1333 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1336 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1337 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1338 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1339 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1340 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1344 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1351 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1354 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1355 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1356 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1357 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1358 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1359 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1360 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1361 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1362 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1366 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1369 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1370 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1371 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1372 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1374 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1375 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1376 breaking backwards compatibility.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1380 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1383 message in perl 5.10.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1387 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1393 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1396 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1400 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1403 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1407 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1410 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1411 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1412 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1413 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1414 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1415 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1416 logging by dh_listpackages.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1420 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1423 run and there are no packages of that type.
1424 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1425 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1426 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1427 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1429 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1430 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1434 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1437 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1438 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1442 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1445 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1446 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1448 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1449 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1450 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1451 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1452 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1453 planned but not yet implemented.)
1454 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1455 if the Makefile has such a target.
1456 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1457 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1458 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1459 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1460 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1461 but not yet implemented.)
1462 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1463 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1464 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1465 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1466 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1468 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1470 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1471 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1473 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1474 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1475 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1480 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1483 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1484 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1488 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1490 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1491 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1492 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1496 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1502 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1508 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1511 just those installed by the program.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1515 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1518 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1519 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1523 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1526 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1527 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1528 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1529 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1533 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1536 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1537 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1541 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1544 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1545 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1549 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1552 with policy. Closes: #461392
1553 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1554 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1555 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1556 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1557 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1561 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1564 Closes: #460340, #460351
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1568 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1571 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1572 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1573 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1574 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1578 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1581 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1582 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1583 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1584 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1585 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1586 package build directory won't work.
1587 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1588 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1589 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1590 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1591 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1592 mode. Closes: #459426
1593 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1598 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1601 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1605 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1609 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1610 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1611 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1612 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1613 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1614 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1618 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1621 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1622 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1623 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1624 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1628 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1631 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1632 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1633 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1634 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1635 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1639 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1642 debian/package.triggers files.
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1646 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1649 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1653 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1656 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1657 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1658 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1659 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1664 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1667 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1671 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1674 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1675 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1677 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1682 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1686 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1687 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1688 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1692 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1699 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1706 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1709 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1711 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1712 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1713 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1715 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1716 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1717 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1721 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1724 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1725 * Update urls to web page.
1726 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1727 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1728 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1729 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1733 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1736 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1737 - typo in alternatives call
1738 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1740 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1741 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1745 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1748 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1753 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1759 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1765 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1768 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1770 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1771 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1772 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1773 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1774 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1775 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1776 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1777 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1778 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1779 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1780 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1784 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1787 package install. Closes: #415717
1788 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1789 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1790 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1791 script and then remove the python files.
1792 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1793 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1794 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1795 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1796 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1797 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1798 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1799 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1800 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1801 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1802 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1803 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1804 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1808 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * Correct typo in french translation
1814 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1815 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1817 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1819 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1820 Closes: #406921, #381940
1821 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1823 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1824 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1825 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1826 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1827 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1828 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1829 specified). Closes: #381851
1830 * Misc minor changes.
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1834 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1841 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1842 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1846 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1852 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1853 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1856 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1857 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1859 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1860 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1861 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1862 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1866 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1869 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1872 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1876 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1882 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1888 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1889 a difficult situation.
1890 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1891 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1892 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1893 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1894 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1895 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1896 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1897 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1898 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1899 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1903 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * Non-maintainer upload.
1906 * Update of dh_python
1907 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1908 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1910 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1911 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1912 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1913 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1914 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1916 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1918 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Non-maintainer upload.
1921 * Update of dh_python
1922 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1923 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1924 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1925 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1926 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1927 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1928 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1929 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1930 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1931 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1933 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1934 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1935 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1936 the not too-distant future).
1937 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1938 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1939 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1940 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1941 thus made the build fail.
1943 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1945 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * Non-maintainer upload.
1948 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1950 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1952 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1955 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1956 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1957 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1958 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1959 package. Closes: #301424
1960 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1961 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1962 fonts). Closes: #372686
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1966 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1972 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1973 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1974 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1975 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1976 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1977 above, but already depends on that.
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1981 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1984 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1985 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1986 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1987 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1988 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1992 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1998 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
2004 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
2005 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
2009 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
2012 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
2016 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
2020 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
2021 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
2022 new version (0.24.1).
2023 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
2024 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
2027 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
2028 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
2029 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
2030 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
2031 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
2032 new directory on their own.
2033 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
2034 * Fix broken directory removal code.
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
2038 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
2041 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
2042 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
2043 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
2044 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
2048 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
2051 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
2052 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
2053 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
2054 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
2055 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
2059 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
2065 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * Typo. Closes: #358904
2069 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
2070 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
2074 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2075 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
2079 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
2081 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
2082 || exit 0 instead of the intended
2084 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
2085 ignored. Closes: #337664
2087 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
2092 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
2098 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
2103 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
2104 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2105 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2106 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2107 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2108 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2109 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2113 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2116 version. Closes: #350607
2117 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2118 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2119 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2120 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2124 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2127 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2128 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2129 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2133 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2140 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2146 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2149 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2153 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2156 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2157 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2158 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2159 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2160 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2161 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2165 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2168 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2169 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2174 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2177 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2181 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2184 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2188 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2191 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2192 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2193 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2194 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2195 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2196 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2200 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2204 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2205 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2206 link. Closes: #346405
2207 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2209 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2210 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2211 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2212 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2213 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2214 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2215 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2219 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2226 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2232 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2235 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2239 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2242 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2247 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2251 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2252 installed. Closes: #342033
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2256 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2259 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2260 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2261 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2266 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2272 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2278 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2282 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2283 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2284 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2288 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2291 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2296 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2303 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2309 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2312 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2313 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2314 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2315 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2316 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2317 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2318 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2320 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2324 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2327 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2328 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2332 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2335 in standard man dirs.
2336 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2340 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2346 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2349 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2354 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2361 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2368 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2371 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2372 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2376 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2379 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2380 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2381 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2383 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2385 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2391 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2397 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2400 mode. Closes: #324161
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2404 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2407 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2408 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2409 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2410 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2415 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2418 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2419 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2420 is necesary for sanity.
2421 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2422 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2427 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2429 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2430 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2434 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2437 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2441 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2447 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2450 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2451 released, so use at your own risk.
2452 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2453 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2455 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2456 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2457 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2458 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2459 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2460 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2461 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2462 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2463 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2464 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2465 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2466 including twice per config file line now..
2467 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2468 and simplfy the rules file.
2469 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2470 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2471 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2473 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2474 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2478 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2481 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2485 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2488 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2492 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2495 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2499 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2502 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2503 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2504 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2505 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2506 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2507 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2511 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2514 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2515 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2516 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2521 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2524 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2525 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2530 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2533 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2534 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2535 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2540 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2543 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2544 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2545 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2549 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2555 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2562 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2565 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2566 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2567 unknown. Closes: #282924
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2571 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2578 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Spanish man page updates.
2581 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2586 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2592 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2595 * dh_desktop: reindent
2596 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2597 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2601 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2607 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2609 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2613 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2615 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2619 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2622 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2623 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2627 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2633 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2639 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2646 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2649 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2653 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2656 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2657 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2658 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2659 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2660 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2661 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2663 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2664 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2665 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2666 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2667 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2668 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2669 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2670 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2671 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2672 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2673 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2674 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2675 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2676 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2677 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2678 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2682 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2689 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2692 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2696 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2699 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2703 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2706 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2710 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2713 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2717 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2723 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2729 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2735 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2738 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2739 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2740 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2744 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2747 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2751 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2754 but occasionally right and necessary.
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2758 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2761 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2762 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2763 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2764 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2765 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2769 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2772 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2774 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2775 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2776 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2777 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2778 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2779 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2780 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2781 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2782 postinst scripts for udebs.
2783 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2787 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2790 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2792 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2793 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2797 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2803 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2810 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2817 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2820 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2824 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2827 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2831 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2834 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2837 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2838 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2842 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2848 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2851 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2855 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2858 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2859 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2860 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2862 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2864 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2865 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2866 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2870 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2873 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2878 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2881 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2882 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2883 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2888 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2894 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2900 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2903 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2904 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2905 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2906 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2907 associated -dbg packages.
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2911 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2914 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2918 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2921 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2925 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2928 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2932 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2935 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2940 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2943 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2947 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2950 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2955 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2958 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2962 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2966 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2967 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2968 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2969 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2970 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2971 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2972 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2973 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2974 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2975 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2979 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2982 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2987 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2990 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2991 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2995 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2998 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2999 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
3004 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
3007 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
3011 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
3014 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
3018 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
3021 out section number. Closes: #204731
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
3025 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
3032 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
3038 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
3044 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * Typo, Closes: #203907
3047 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
3048 removal. Closes: #204286
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
3052 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
3055 renaming. Closes: #203548
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
3059 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
3062 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
3063 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
3067 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
3073 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
3079 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
3085 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
3088 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
3089 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
3090 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
3094 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
3097 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
3098 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
3102 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3108 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3115 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3118 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3123 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3126 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3130 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3133 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3135 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3136 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3140 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3143 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3148 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3151 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3155 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3161 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3163 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3167 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3170 it break hard links (see #188663).
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3174 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3177 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3181 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3187 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3191 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3192 debconf-mergetemplates
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3196 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3199 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3203 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3206 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3210 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3213 * Update debhelper(1).
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3217 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3220 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3221 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3222 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3223 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3224 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3228 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3231 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3232 the shell. Closes: #178524
3233 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3237 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3240 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3244 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3247 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3251 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3254 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3255 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3256 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3257 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3262 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3265 files from installation.
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3269 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3272 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3273 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3277 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3280 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3284 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3287 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3291 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3297 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3303 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3307 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3308 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3310 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3314 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3317 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3318 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3319 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3320 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3324 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3327 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3331 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3334 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3335 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3339 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3343 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3348 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3354 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3358 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3359 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3360 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3365 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3368 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3369 practice. Closes: #163303
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3373 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3379 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3386 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3389 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3391 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3392 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3393 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3394 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3395 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3399 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3402 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3407 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3413 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3420 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3423 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3428 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3434 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3440 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3446 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3453 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3456 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3457 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3458 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3459 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3464 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3470 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3477 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3480 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3481 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3485 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3488 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3489 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3490 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3491 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3492 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3496 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3499 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3501 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3506 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3509 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3513 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3516 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3517 right thing. Closes: #150644
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3521 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * Stupid, evil typo.
3524 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3528 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3535 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3538 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3539 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3544 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3550 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3553 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3557 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3560 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3561 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3566 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3569 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3573 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3579 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3582 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3583 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3587 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3593 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * Removing perl warning message.
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3599 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3602 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3603 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3604 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3605 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3606 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3607 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3608 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3609 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3613 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3619 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3626 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3629 debconf-mergetemplate.
3630 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3631 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3635 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3638 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3639 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3640 dh_install, which ...
3641 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3642 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3643 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3644 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3645 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3646 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3647 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3648 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3649 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3650 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3651 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3652 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3653 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3654 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3655 other minor changes.
3656 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3657 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3658 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3659 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3660 course there's -X ..)
3661 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3662 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3663 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3665 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3666 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3667 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3668 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3669 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3674 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3680 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3683 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3687 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3693 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3699 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3701 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3705 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3711 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3714 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3715 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3716 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3717 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3719 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3720 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3724 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3730 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3733 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3737 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3740 upset. Closes: #131322
3742 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3744 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3747 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3748 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3749 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3750 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3751 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3752 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3753 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3754 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3755 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3756 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3757 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3758 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3759 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3760 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3761 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3763 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3767 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3770 - Better indenting of generated code.
3771 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3775 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3779 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3780 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3781 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3782 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3783 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3784 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3785 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3789 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3792 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3796 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3799 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3800 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3801 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3802 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3803 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3804 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3805 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3806 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3807 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3808 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3809 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3810 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3811 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3812 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3813 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3818 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3824 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3826 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3827 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3828 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3832 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3834 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3835 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3836 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3840 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3846 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3849 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3850 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3851 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3852 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3853 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3858 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3860 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3864 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3867 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3871 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3874 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3879 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3885 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3888 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3892 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3898 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3902 Also some indentation fixes.
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3906 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3909 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3910 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3911 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3912 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3913 Closes: #106514, #85520
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3917 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3923 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3929 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3935 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3941 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3947 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3950 change it in debhelper v4..
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3954 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3960 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3962 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3963 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3967 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3970 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3974 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3980 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3983 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3984 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3985 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3986 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3987 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3988 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3989 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3990 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3991 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3992 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3993 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3994 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3998 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
4001 look just like shared libs, but are not.
4003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
4005 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4007 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
4012 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
4015 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
4016 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
4017 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
4018 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
4019 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
4020 program those options go to. So, for example,
4021 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
4022 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
4023 something complex. Closes: #89311
4024 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
4028 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
4031 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
4032 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
4033 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
4037 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
4040 through loop. Closes: #98598
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
4044 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * Missing semi-colon.
4047 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
4048 this (dh_* should be called, really).
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
4052 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
4055 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
4056 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
4057 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
4061 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
4064 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
4065 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
4069 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
4072 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
4076 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
4079 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
4080 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
4084 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
4087 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
4088 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
4089 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
4093 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
4096 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
4097 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
4098 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
4102 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4105 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4109 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4115 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4121 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4127 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4133 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4136 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4140 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4143 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4144 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4145 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4146 followed. Closes: #85483
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4150 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4152 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4153 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4154 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4158 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4161 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4162 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4163 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4164 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4165 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4166 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4167 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4168 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4169 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4170 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4171 Closes: #88464, #77743
4172 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4173 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4174 us to deal with that gracefully.
4175 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4177 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4178 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4179 a while, Closes: #51225
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4183 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4189 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4191 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4192 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4196 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4200 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4205 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4207 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4208 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4209 don't make packlist files.
4210 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4211 debhelper coding standards.
4212 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4213 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4217 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4219 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4220 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4224 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4227 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4228 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4229 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4230 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4231 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4232 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4233 but is mildly deprecated.
4234 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4235 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4236 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4237 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4238 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4239 switching to statoverrides..
4240 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4241 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4242 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4243 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4244 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4245 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4247 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4248 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4249 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4250 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4251 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4252 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4253 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4254 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4255 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4257 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4258 variable names, pod man pages).
4259 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4260 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4261 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4262 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4263 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4264 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4265 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4269 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4275 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4277 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4282 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4284 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4285 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4289 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4291 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4292 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4293 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4297 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4299 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4300 they were previously ignored.
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4304 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4306 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4307 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4311 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4313 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4314 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4315 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4319 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4321 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4325 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4327 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4328 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4332 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4334 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4335 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4336 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4337 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4338 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4339 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4340 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4341 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4342 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4343 it is an obsolete program.
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4347 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4349 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4353 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4355 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4357 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4359 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4361 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4363 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4365 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4367 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4369 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4373 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4379 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4381 * typo: Closes, #78567
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4385 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4391 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4397 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4399 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4400 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4401 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4402 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4403 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4404 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4408 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4411 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4416 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4419 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4420 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4421 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4422 backwards-compatibility.
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4426 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4429 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4430 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4431 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4432 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4433 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4434 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4436 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4437 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4438 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4440 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4442 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4443 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4444 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4445 should now be raised to severity important..
4446 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4447 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4451 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4454 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4459 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4465 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4471 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4473 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4477 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4484 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4487 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4488 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4489 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4490 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4494 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4496 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4500 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4502 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4503 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4504 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4505 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4506 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4507 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4508 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4513 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4515 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4516 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4520 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4526 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4529 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4534 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4537 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4538 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4539 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4540 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4544 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4546 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4548 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4551 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4554 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4555 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4558 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4560 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4561 the TODO entry about it.
4563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4565 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4567 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4572 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4574 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4575 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4576 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4580 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4583 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4584 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4585 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4586 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4590 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4592 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4596 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4598 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4603 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4606 (this appears to be logal).
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4610 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4613 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4614 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4615 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4616 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4620 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4626 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4628 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4629 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4630 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4631 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4632 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4636 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4642 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4644 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4645 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4649 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4656 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4658 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4659 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4660 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4661 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4666 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4673 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4679 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4682 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4683 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4684 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4685 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4686 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4687 notice until v2 is complete.
4688 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
4689 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4690 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4691 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4692 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4693 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4695 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4696 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4697 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4698 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4702 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4704 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4708 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4710 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4715 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4718 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4722 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4729 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4732 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4733 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4734 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4735 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4740 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4742 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4743 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4744 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4745 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4750 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4753 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4754 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4758 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4760 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4761 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4765 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4767 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4768 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4772 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4779 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4782 depend on the build and install targets.
4784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4786 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4788 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4789 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4793 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4795 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4800 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4806 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4812 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4814 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4815 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4816 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4817 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4818 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4819 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4820 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4822 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4823 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4824 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4825 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4826 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4827 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4828 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4832 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4834 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4838 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4844 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4847 right place. Closes: #55065
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4851 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4853 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4858 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4861 * Copyright date updates.
4863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4865 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4867 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4868 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4873 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4879 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4886 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4888 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4892 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4894 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4898 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4904 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4907 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4908 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4909 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4910 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4911 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4912 bits until all files have been registered.
4914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4916 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4918 * dh_installmanpages:
4919 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4920 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4921 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4922 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4923 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4924 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4925 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4926 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4927 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4928 otherwise change the result at all.
4930 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4931 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4932 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4933 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4934 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4939 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4941 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4945 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4947 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4948 act on files that don't exist.
4949 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4950 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4951 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4953 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4954 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4955 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4956 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4960 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4962 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4966 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4968 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4972 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4974 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4975 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4979 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4981 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4982 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4984 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4985 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4986 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4990 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4992 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4993 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4994 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4995 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4996 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4997 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4998 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4999 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
5001 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
5003 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
5005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
5007 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5009 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
5014 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5016 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
5018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
5020 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5022 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
5026 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
5029 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
5033 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
5039 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
5043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
5045 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5047 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
5048 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
5049 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
5050 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
5051 I made some changes, though:
5052 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
5053 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
5054 that is a clear violation of policy.
5055 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
5056 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
5057 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
5058 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
5059 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
5060 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
5061 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
5062 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
5063 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
5065 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
5067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
5069 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5071 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
5073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
5075 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5077 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
5078 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
5080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
5082 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5084 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
5085 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
5086 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
5089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
5091 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5093 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
5095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
5097 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5099 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
5102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
5104 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5106 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5107 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5108 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5109 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5110 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5111 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5112 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5113 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5117 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5119 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5123 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5127 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5128 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5132 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5138 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5140 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5141 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5145 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5148 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5149 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5153 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5155 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5160 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5162 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5164 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5168 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5170 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5171 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5172 for the dependancies to be generated.
5174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5176 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5178 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5179 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5183 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5186 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5187 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5188 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5193 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5195 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5196 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5197 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5201 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5207 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5213 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5215 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5216 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5220 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5222 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5226 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5229 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5230 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5231 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5232 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5233 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5234 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5235 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5236 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5237 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5238 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5239 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5240 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5244 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5246 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5247 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5248 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5250 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5251 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5252 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5253 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5254 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5255 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5257 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5258 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5262 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5264 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5265 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5269 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5271 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5276 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5279 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5284 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5287 for building debhelper.
5288 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5292 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5294 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5299 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5301 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5302 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5306 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5308 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5309 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5310 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5311 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5312 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5313 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5314 it's always available.
5316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5318 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5320 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5321 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5322 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5323 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5327 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5329 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5330 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5331 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5335 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5341 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5344 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5348 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5350 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5354 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5356 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5357 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5358 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5359 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5363 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5365 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5366 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5371 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5374 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5375 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5377 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5378 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5382 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5388 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5390 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5394 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5397 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5401 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5404 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5405 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5407 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5411 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5413 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5414 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5415 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5416 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5420 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5423 things if CDPATH is set.
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5427 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5433 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5435 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5436 seems to make sense for the transition.
5438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5440 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5442 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5443 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5448 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5450 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5451 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5452 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5456 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5458 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5459 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5463 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5465 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5466 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5467 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5468 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5469 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5473 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5479 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5481 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5482 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5483 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5484 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5485 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5486 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5487 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5488 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5489 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5490 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5491 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5496 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5498 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5499 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5500 * README: mention doc/v2
5501 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5502 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5506 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5508 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5509 be using this script RSN.
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5513 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5516 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5517 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5518 more than 1 init script.
5520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5522 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5524 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5525 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5529 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * Changed perl version detection.
5532 * Changed call to find.
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5536 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5539 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5541 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5546 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * Really include dh_installpam.
5550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5552 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5554 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5555 * Wrote man page for same.
5557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5559 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5561 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5562 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5563 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5568 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5570 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5575 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5577 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5578 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5579 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5580 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5581 x bit was being set!
5583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5585 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5587 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5588 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5589 well. (Closes: 38900)
5591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5593 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5595 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5596 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5597 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5601 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5603 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5607 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5609 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5614 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5616 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5620 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5622 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5623 help from Julian Gilbey.
5624 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5625 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5626 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5627 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5628 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5629 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5630 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5635 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5637 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5641 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5643 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5648 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5654 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5656 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5660 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5662 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5663 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5667 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5669 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5670 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5674 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5676 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5677 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5681 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5683 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5687 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5689 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5690 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5694 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5696 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5700 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5702 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5706 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5709 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5710 may be deleted. (#35845)
5712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5714 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5716 * Various man page enhancements.
5717 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5722 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5724 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5725 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5726 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5730 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5732 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5733 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5734 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5735 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5737 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5738 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5743 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5745 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5749 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5751 * Another very minor typo fix.
5753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5755 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5757 * Very minor typo fix.
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5761 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5763 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5764 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5765 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5769 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5771 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5775 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5777 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5778 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5779 variables properly (#34850).
5781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5783 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5785 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5789 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5791 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5792 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5793 (automatically generated by build process).
5795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5797 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5799 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5803 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5805 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5806 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5807 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5809 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5813 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5815 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5816 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5820 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5822 * README: minor typo fix.
5824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5826 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5828 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5829 leave it at that. :-)
5831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5833 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5835 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5839 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5841 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5845 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5847 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5848 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5849 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5850 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5854 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5856 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5857 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5861 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5863 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5864 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5868 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5870 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5871 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5872 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5873 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5874 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5878 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5880 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5881 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5882 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5883 Craig Small for spotting this.
5885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5887 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5889 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5890 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5891 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5895 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5897 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5901 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5903 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5904 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5908 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5910 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5911 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5912 working on the last version of debhelper.
5914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5916 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5918 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5919 being made. (#23255)
5921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5923 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5925 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5929 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5931 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5932 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5936 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5938 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5939 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5940 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5941 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5942 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5946 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5949 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5950 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5951 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5952 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5954 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5955 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5957 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5962 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5968 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5970 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5974 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5976 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5977 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5978 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5979 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5980 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5981 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5982 suidregister actually supports it.
5983 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5984 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5988 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5990 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5995 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5997 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5998 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5999 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
6000 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
6001 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
6002 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
6003 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
6004 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
6006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
6008 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
6010 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
6011 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
6013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
6015 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
6017 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
6018 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
6019 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
6020 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
6021 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
6023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
6025 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
6027 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
6028 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
6030 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
6031 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
6032 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
6033 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
6034 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
6035 effect, either. (#30118)
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
6039 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
6043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
6045 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
6047 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
6048 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
6049 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
6051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
6053 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
6055 * Spelling and typo fixes.
6057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
6059 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
6061 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
6062 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
6063 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
6064 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
6065 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
6067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
6069 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
6071 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
6072 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
6073 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
6075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
6077 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
6079 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
6081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
6083 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
6085 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
6086 packages, painlessly.
6088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
6090 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
6092 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
6094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
6096 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
6098 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
6100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
6102 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
6104 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6108 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6110 * The perl conversion is complete.
6112 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6114 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6115 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6116 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6121 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6123 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6124 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6125 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6126 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6130 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6132 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6133 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6135 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6137 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6138 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6142 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6144 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6145 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6146 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6150 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6152 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6156 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6158 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6159 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6160 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6161 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6162 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6163 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6167 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6169 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6170 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6171 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6172 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6173 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6177 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6179 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6180 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6184 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6186 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6187 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6188 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6189 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6190 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6191 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6192 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6193 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6194 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6198 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6200 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6204 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6206 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6207 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6208 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6209 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6214 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6216 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6217 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6221 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6223 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6224 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6228 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6230 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6231 sections of shared libraries.
6232 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6233 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6234 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6235 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6236 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6237 things you don't want them to.
6238 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6239 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6243 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6245 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6246 shared libraries. (#26414)
6248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6250 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6252 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6253 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6254 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6255 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6259 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6261 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6263 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6265 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6266 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6267 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6268 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6269 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6273 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6275 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6276 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6280 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6282 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6283 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6284 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6289 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6291 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6292 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6296 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6298 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6299 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6300 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6301 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6302 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6303 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6305 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6306 remove debian/files properly.
6307 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6308 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6309 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6310 * Removed bogus menu file.
6312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6314 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6316 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6317 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6321 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6323 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6324 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6325 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6326 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6327 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6328 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6329 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6333 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6335 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6336 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6337 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6338 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6339 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6343 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6345 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6350 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6352 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6353 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6354 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6356 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6357 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6358 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6359 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6360 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6361 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6365 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6367 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6368 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6369 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6370 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6371 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6372 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6373 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6374 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6375 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6376 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6377 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6378 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6379 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6380 passed any switches.
6381 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6385 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6387 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6388 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6389 at all for a long while.
6390 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6391 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6392 large chunks in the process.
6393 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6394 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6395 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6400 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6402 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6403 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6405 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6410 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6412 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6413 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6414 that don't always have the same files in them.
6415 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6416 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6417 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6421 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6423 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6425 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6426 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6427 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6428 updating 27 man pages.
6429 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6430 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6431 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6432 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6433 programs act on. (#25247)
6435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6437 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6441 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6442 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6443 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6444 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6445 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6446 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6451 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6453 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6458 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6460 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6465 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6467 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6468 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6472 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6474 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6478 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6480 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6481 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6482 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6483 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6484 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6485 package by accident.
6486 * Is version 1.0 next?
6488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6490 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6492 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6493 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6494 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6498 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6500 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6501 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6502 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6503 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6504 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6505 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6507 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6512 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6514 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6515 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6516 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6520 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6522 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6523 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6527 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6529 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6530 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6531 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6536 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6538 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6542 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6544 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6545 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6546 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6551 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6553 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6557 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6559 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6560 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6561 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6562 past week. Thanks, guys!
6564 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6565 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6566 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6567 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6568 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6569 would do in the same situation.
6570 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6571 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6573 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6575 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6576 permissions changed.
6577 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6578 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6579 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6580 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6581 files are treated identically.
6582 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6583 * Minor man page fixes.
6584 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6585 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6586 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6590 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6592 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6593 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6594 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6595 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6596 use -X multiple times, too.
6597 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6598 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6602 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6604 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6605 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6606 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6610 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6612 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6613 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6617 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6619 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6620 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6621 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6622 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6623 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6624 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6625 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6626 shape if you're starting a new package.
6628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6630 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6632 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6633 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6637 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6639 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6640 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6641 because of missing symlinks.
6643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6645 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6647 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6651 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6653 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6654 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6655 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6656 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6657 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6658 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6660 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6661 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6665 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6667 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6668 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6669 to be changed after the fact :-)
6670 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6674 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6676 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6677 no version string after the -V.
6679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6681 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6683 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6684 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6689 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6691 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6692 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6696 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6698 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6699 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6700 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6701 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6702 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6703 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6704 I always welcome corrections!
6706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6708 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6710 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6714 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6716 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6717 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6718 * Documented this new switch.
6720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6722 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6724 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6725 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6726 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6727 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6728 no packages use the old behavior.
6730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6732 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6734 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6735 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6736 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6740 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6742 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6743 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6747 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6749 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6753 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6755 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6756 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6760 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6762 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6763 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6764 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6765 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6769 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6771 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6775 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6777 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6778 into the source package by accident.
6780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6782 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6784 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6785 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6786 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6787 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6788 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6789 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6790 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6795 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6797 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6799 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6800 inspired to implement some of it.
6801 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6805 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6807 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6808 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6812 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6814 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6815 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6816 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6820 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6822 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6823 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6824 have done.) (#17598)
6826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6828 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6830 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6834 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6836 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6840 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6842 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6843 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6847 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6849 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6850 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6851 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6855 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6857 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6858 argument processor in perl.
6859 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6860 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6861 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6862 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6866 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6868 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6869 type directories. (#16933)
6870 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6871 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6872 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6873 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6874 are supported. (#16935)
6875 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6880 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6882 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6883 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6887 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6889 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6891 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6892 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6893 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6894 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6895 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6896 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6900 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6902 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6903 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6904 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6906 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6907 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6908 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6909 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6910 a given package, or -i or -a.
6911 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6912 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6913 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6914 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6915 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6916 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6917 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6918 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6919 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6921 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6922 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6923 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6927 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6929 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6930 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6931 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6936 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6938 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6939 does not have a section.
6941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6943 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6945 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6946 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6947 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6948 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6952 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6954 * Fixed typo #16215.
6956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6958 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6960 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6961 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6962 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6963 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6964 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6965 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6970 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6972 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6973 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6974 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6975 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6980 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6982 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6986 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6988 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6992 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6994 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6995 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6996 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6997 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6998 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6999 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
7000 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
7002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
7004 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
7006 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
7008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
7010 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
7012 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
7013 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
7015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
7017 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
7019 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
7020 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
7021 the dh_* programs (#15497).
7022 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
7024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
7026 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
7028 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
7029 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
7031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
7033 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
7035 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
7037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
7039 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
7041 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
7042 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
7044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
7046 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
7048 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
7049 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
7051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
7053 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
7055 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
7057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
7059 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
7061 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
7062 postinst, postrm, etc.
7064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
7066 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
7068 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
7070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
7072 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
7074 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
7075 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
7076 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
7077 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
7078 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
7079 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
7081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
7083 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
7085 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
7086 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
7087 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
7089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
7091 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
7093 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
7094 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
7096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
7098 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
7100 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
7101 installing package files into.
7102 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7107 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7109 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7111 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7115 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7117 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7121 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7123 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7124 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7128 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7130 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7131 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7132 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7133 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7134 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7138 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7140 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7141 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7142 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7143 multiple binary packages.
7144 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7145 should rebuild them with this version.
7146 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7150 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7152 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7153 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7157 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7159 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7160 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7164 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7166 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7167 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7168 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7169 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7170 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7171 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7172 debian/README.debian.
7173 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7174 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7175 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7176 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7177 in a few situations.)
7179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7181 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7183 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7187 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7189 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7193 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7195 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7196 * Fixed several man pages.
7198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7200 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7202 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7203 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7204 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7208 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7210 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7211 is ready for general use.
7212 * Added man pages for all commands.
7213 * Multiple binary package support.
7214 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7215 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7216 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7218 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7219 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7220 auto-installed as parameters.
7221 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7223 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7226 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7227 the package build directory it is to act on.
7228 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7229 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7230 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7234 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7236 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7237 ready to replace debstd.
7239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400